I pazzi per progetto

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Work data
Title: I pazzi per progetto
Title page of the libretto, Cagliari 1841

Title page of the libretto, Cagliari 1841

Shape: Farsa in one act
Original language: Italian
Music: Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto : Domenico Gilardoni
Literary source: I pazzi per progetto by Giovanni C. Cosenza
Premiere: February 6, 1830
Place of premiere: Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Playing time: 1 ¼ hours
Place and time of the action: Paris
people
  • Darlemont, head of the madhouse ( bass )
  • Norina, Darlemont's niece ( soprano )
  • Colonel Blinval, Norina's husband (bass)
  • Eustacchio, a deserted military trumpeter from Blinval's regiment (bass)
  • Cristina, young French woman, in love with Blinval, patient in the madhouse ( mezzo-soprano )
  • Venanzio, Christine's stingy guardian (bass)
  • Frank, Darlemont's servant (bass)
  • three madmen

I pazzi per progetto (Eng .: the deliberate fools ) is a farsa in one act by Gaetano Donizetti . The libretto is by Domenico Gilardoni . The first performance took place on February 6, 1830 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples.

action

Norina's uncle Darlemont runs a madhouse in Paris. One after the other, Cristina, her stingy guardian Venanzio, the deserted military trumpeter Eustachio and Colonel Blinval arrive.

Venanzio wants to declare Cristina insane so that he can inherit her. Cristina is only in love with Blinval, with whom she spent a night of love. Blinval, however, is married to Norina, the niece of the director Darlemont. Blinval promised Cristina to marry her as soon as his wife Norina passed away. Norina, long separated from him because of her husband's military absence and his amorous adventures, is in excellent health and still loves him. With the help of her uncle Darlemont, she pretends to her husband that she has actually gone mad out of grief over his affairs in order to test his love for her. Blinval finds out about it and, suddenly becoming jealous, he turns the tables and plays the madman himself.

Eustacchio, a deserted military trumpeter from Colonel Blinval's regiment, poses as a doctor in order to be able to escape his pursuers. But Blival recognizes him, although Eustacchio plays stupid and asserts that there is only a resemblance.

Finally, Darlemont realizes that everything is just an act and he manages to bring the "deliberate fool" back to their senses. The entangled suspicions, disappointments and misunderstandings dissolve: Blinval and Norina reconcile and Blinval promises her never to cheat again. Cristina promises to leave Blinval alone from now on, whereupon she is immediately courted by Darlemont. Venanzi is happy that his ward is sane and offers Darlemont good pay. Instead of being paid, he asked for Cristina's hand, which he was granted. Eustachio is pardoned by Blinval, and so everything dissolves into love.

Work history

For I pazzi per progetto Donizetti interrupted work on Il diluvio universale in Naples . I pazzi is an occasional piece of work written down quickly, with which Donizetti wanted to earn some money. Luigi Lablache (Darlemont), Maria Carraro (Norina), Giuseppe Fioravanti (Blinval), Giovanni Battista Campagnoli (Eustachio), Luigia Boccabadati (Cristina), Gennarino Luzio (Venanzio) sang at the premiere on February 6, 1830 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples ) and Gennaro Ambrosini (Frank). Nicola Festa was the musical director . The sets were by Pasquale Canna , Nicola "Nicoletto" Pellandi and Leopoldo Galluzzi. Although, contrary to tradition, there was no tenor role in the opera, the work was well received by the audience.

Today the opera is often performed with Viva la Mamma , another comic one-act act by Donizetti. The score is kept in the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella di Napoli .

  • Luigia Boccabadati, the first Norina

  • Luigi Lablache, the first Darlemont

literature

  • Robert Steiner-Isenmann: Gaetano Donizetti. His life and his operas. Hallwag, Bern 1982. ISBN 3-444-10272-0 , pp. 119f, 480f.

Web links

Commons : I pazzi per progetto  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ February 6, 1830: "I pazzi per progetto". In: L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia ., Accessed on August 8, 2019.
  2. ↑ italianopera.org