Il moro
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Title: | The Moor |
Original title: | Il moro |
Shape: | Commedia per musica in two acts |
Original language: | Italian |
Music: | Antonio Salieri |
Libretto : | Giovanni De Gamerra |
Premiere: | August 7, 1796 |
Place of premiere: | Vienna, Burgtheater |
Playing time: | approx. 2½ hours |
Place and time of the action: | Gasthof zum Adler and another inn near Livorno |
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Il moro (Eng. The Moor ) is a commedia per musica in two acts by Antonio Salieri based on a text by Giovanni De Gamerra.
The first performance took place on August 7, 1796 in the Vienna Burgtheater . After 21 performances in Vienna in less than a year, the piece was also staged in Dresden (1797), St. Petersburg (1798), Florence (1804), as well as in Livorno, Rome and Bologna (1805).
Salieri composed this rather low- action Farsetta with routine, but without any particular claim. The music, however, develops a Mozartian charm, to which the opera seria sometimes parody elements. In terms of instrumentation, Salieri shows his mastery again by mixing the orchestral colors in a very varied way and coming up with unusual ideas (e.g. the use of a solo violoncello). The overture is “exotic” with a cymbal, bass drum and triangle.
Web links
- Il moro (Antonio Salieri) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
- Il moro : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- The Moor. Libretto (Italian / German), Dresden 1797. Digitized version of the Dresden State and University Library