Il pastor fido (Salieri)
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| Title: | Il pastor fido |
Manuscript page of an early version of the opera (c. 1788) |
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| Shape: | dramma tragicomico per musica |
| Original language: | Italian |
| Music: | Antonio Salieri |
| Libretto : | Lorenzo Da Ponte |
| Literary source: | Giovanni Battista Guarini |
| Premiere: | February 11, 1789 |
| Place of premiere: | Burgtheater Vienna |
| Playing time: | about 3 hours |
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Il pastor fido (1789) is a dramma tragicomico in four or three acts by Antonio Salieri based on a text by Lorenzo Da Ponte based on a pastoral by Giovanni Battista Guarini , which premiered on February 11, 1789 in the Vienna Burgtheater.
After only three performances, the piece was canceled due to dramaturgical inadequacies and returned to the stage on October 14 of the same year in a revised version in three acts.
The role of Amarilli was occupied by Adriana Ferrarese del Bene and was accordingly dramatic. Particularly noteworthy are the arias "Ah, con chi parlo" (in the first act), "Deh perdona, amato bene" (in the third act) and "A che dunque, eterni Dei" (in the fourth act), which testify to the greats Adriana Ferrarese del Benes' vocal skills.
The overture, which does not seem to fit entirely with the rest of the opera, is also striking - Salieri took it without changes from the opera Prima la musica e poi le parole , composed three years earlier .
Web links
Il pastor fido (Antonio Salieri) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
Individual evidence
- ^ John A. Rice: Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1998, ISBN 0-226-71126-9
- ^ Ignaz Franz von Mosel: About the life and works of Anton Salieri . Bock, Bad Honnef 1999, ISBN 3-87066-494-0 (Rep. D. Edition Vienna 1827, commented by Rudolph Angermüller)