Il mondo della luna (Galuppi)

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Title: Il mondo della luna
Title page of the libretto, Venice 1750

Title page of the libretto, Venice 1750

Shape: “ Dramma giocoso ” in three acts
Original language: Italian
Music: Baldassare Galuppi
Libretto : Carlo Goldoni :
Il mondo della luna
Literary source: Cyrano de Bergerac : Voyage dans la lune,
Anne Mauduit de Fatouville : Arlequin empereur dans la lune
Premiere: January 29, 1750
Place of premiere: Teatro San Moisè , Venice
Playing time: approx. 2 ¾ hours
Place and time of the action: Venice, mid-18th century
people
  • Ecclitico, false astrologer ( bass )
  • Buonafede / Buona Fede, father of Flaminia and Clarice, amateur astronomer, simple-minded man (bass)
  • Flaminia, Buonafede's daughter ( soprano )
  • Lisetta, Buonafedes maid (soprano)
  • Clarice, Buonafede's other daughter ( old )
  • Cecco, Ernesto's servant (bass)
  • Ernesto, Flaminia's lover (soprano, trouser role )

Il mondo della luna is an opera buffa (original name: " Dramma giocoso ") in three acts by Baldassare Galuppi (music) with a libretto by Carlo Goldoni . It was premiered on January 29, 1750 at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice.

action

layout

music

The opera's original orchestral line-up only provides for two oboes , two horns and strings . For the 1997 CD recording, Franco Piva added two flutes and a bassoon .

The music is kept simple. It gets its expressiveness mainly through melodic and structural variety. Apart from brief changes to secondary keys or the occasional surprising cadence turn , Galuppi largely dispenses with harmonic peculiarities . The form is given by the text. Particularly noteworthy is Buonafede's aria “La ragazza col vecchione” (I: 3), in which he expresses his astonishment at the way of life on the moon through brief, energetic melodic turns.

Music numbers

The score preserved in the Paris National Library contains three cavatines , five arias without da capo repetition, twelve da capo arias , three duets, two quartets, two choral movements and four piccole symphonies .

  • Sinfonia: Allegro - Andante - Presto

first act

  • Choir: "O luna lucente" - "Prendiamo, fratelli" (scene 1)
  • Cavatine (Buonafede): "Ho veduto una ragazza" (scene 3)
  • Cavatine (Buonafede): "Ho veduto un buon marito" (scene 3)
  • Cavatine (Buonafede): "Ho veduto dall'amante" (scene 3)
  • Aria (Buonafede): "La ragazza col vecchione" (scene 3, without da-capo)
  • Aria (Ecclitico): "Un poco di denaro" (scene 4)
  • Aria (Ernesto): "Se amor provasti mai" (scene 5)
  • Aria (Cecco): "Mi fanno ridere" (scene 6)
  • Aria (Flaminia): "Affetti non turbate" (scene 7)
  • Aria (Clarice): "Son fanciulla da marito" (scene 8)
  • Aria (Lisetta): "Una donna come me" (scene 9)
  • Finale I (quartet): “Vado, vado; volo, volo "(scene 10)

Second act

  • Piccola sinfonia (1) (scene 1)
  • Piccola sinfonia (2) (scene 1)
  • Aria (Ecclitico): "Voi lo wallpaper" (scene 3)
  • Piccola sinfonia (3) (scene 4)
  • Aria (Cecco): "Un avaro suda e pena" (Scene 5, without da-capo)
  • Aria (Ernesto): "A quelle luci amate" (scene 6)
  • Aria (Buonafede): "Che mondo amabile" (scene 7, without da-capo)
  • Duet (Lisetta, Buonafede): "Non aver di me sospetto" (scene 9)
  • Recitativo accompagnato and aria (Lisetta, Cecco): "Lei è mio" - "Se lo comanda" (scene 10)
  • Piccola sinfonia (4) (scene 10)
  • Aria (Flaminia): "Se la mia stella" (scene 11)
  • Aria (Clarice): "Quanta gente che sospira" (Scene 12, without da-capo)
  • Finale II (quartet): "Mia principessa" (scene 14)

Third act

  • Aria (Clarice): "Un parigin che serva" (scene 2)
  • Aria (Flaminia): "Se la mia stella" (scene 3)
  • Aria (Lisetta): "Quando si trovano" (scene 4)
  • Duet (Ernesto, Flaminia): "Cara ti stringo al seno" (scene 6)
  • Duet (Ecclitico, Clarice): "Sposina mia cara" (scene 6)
  • Aria (Buonafede): "Qua la mano" (scene 6, without da-capo)
  • Finale III (with choir): "Questo è quelle che succede" (scene 6)

Work history

Carlo Goldoni wrote the libretto for this opera in 1750. The text is inspired by Cyrano de Bergerac's Voyage dans la lune (1650) and Anne Mauduit de Fatouville's comedy Arlequin empereur dans la lune (Paris 1684). The latter in turn is based on a Commedia dell'arte template.

At the premiere on January 29, 1750 at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice, Alessandro Renda (Ecclitico), Francesco Baglioni (Buonafede), Dionisia Lepri (Flaminia), Costanza Rossignoli (Lisetta), Serafina Penni (Clarice), Francesco Carattoli (Cecco) sang and Berenice Penna (Ernesto). The set was designed by Girolamo Mauro. The choreography of the two ballets included in the opera was done by Domenico Minelli. A separate textbook has been published for the second (L'incoronazione di Diana sposata a Endiome) .

The work was performed in many other cities in the years that followed. There is evidence of performances in the years 1750 (Venice, Vicenza), 1751 (Parma, Venice, Florence, Milan, Barcelona), 1752 (Vercelli), 1753 (Treviso, Braunschweig, Brussels, Amsterdam, Haarlem, Venice), 1754 (Civitavecchia, Rome, Dresden), 1755 (Padua, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Genoa, Prague, Bologna), 1756 (Perugia, Modena, Bologna), 1758 (Saint Petersburg, Moscow), 1760 (Braunschweig, London, Turin) and 1761 (London, Brno).

The opera has been preserved in numerous copies that have been adapted to the respective performance conditions and therefore differ from the libretto. A largely complete manuscript has survived in the Paris National Library. Only the dialogue between Buonafede and the students (I: 3), the dialogue of the four knights with Eclittico and Buonafede (II: 3) and a section before the final choir are missing. In addition, four arias by Ernesto (I: 5 and II: 6) and Flaminia (I: 7 and III: 3) have texts that differ from the libretto.

The first recent performance was in September 1979 at the Teatro Sociale in Rovigo under the direction of Franco Piva. Directed by Antonio Taglioni. The stage and costumes were from Gabbris Ferrari.

Recordings

  • 1997 - Franco Piva (conductor), Intermusica Ensemble.
    Giorgio Gatti (Ecclitico), Gastone Sarti (Buonafede), Paola Antonucci (Flaminia), Patricia Cigna (Lisetta), Barbara di Castri (Clarice), Claudio Ottino (Cecco), Enrico Facini (Ernesto).
    Live from Pesaro.
    Bongiovanni GB2217 / 19-2.

Web links

Commons : Il mondo della luna  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ The name is written in the 1850 libretto "Buona Fede", but in most other sources it is "Buonafede".
  2. ↑ At this point (I: 5) in the libretto of 1750 the aria “Begli occhi vezzosi” appears.
  3. ↑ At this point (I: 7) in the libretto of 1750 the aria “Ragion nell'alma siede” appears.
  4. ↑ At this point (II: 6) in the libretto of 1750 is the aria “Qualche volta non fa male”.
  5. ↑ In the libretto of 1750 (III: 3) the aria “Ah pur troppo il nostro core” is at this point.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Duration of the recording by Frano Piva, Bongiovanni GB2217 / 19-2.
  2. ↑ a b Dale E. Monson:  Mondo della luna, Il (i) ('The World on the Moon'). In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
  3. ↑ a b c d Supplement to CD Bongiovanni GB2217 / 19-2.
  4. ^ A b Eleanor Selfridge-Field: A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760. Stanford University Press, Stanford 2007, ISBN 978-0-8047-4437-9 , pp. 527-528.
  5. ↑ a b Pierpaolo Polzonetti: Haydn and the moon: from utopia to revolution. In: Walter Reicher (Ed.): Eisenstädter Haydn reports. Volume 11. Hollitzer, Eisenstadt 2019, ISBN 978-3-99012-572-4 , pp. 263-282.
  6. ^ Data set of the performance on January 29, 1750 in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
  7. ↑ Baldassare Galuppi. In: Andreas Ommer: Directory of all complete opera recordings (= Zeno.org . Volume 20). Directmedia, Berlin 2005, p. 5010.