Il ricco d'un giorno

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Opera dates
Original title: Il ricco d'un giorno
Shape: Dramma giocoso in three acts
Original language: Italian
Music: Antonio Salieri
Libretto : Lorenzo Da Ponte
Premiere: December 6, 1784
Place of premiere: Vienna, Burgtheater
Playing time: about 3 hours
Place and time of the action: Venice
people
  • Emilia, beloved Giacintos ( soprano )
  • Giacinto, wasteful youth ( tenor )
  • Strettonio, brother of Giacintos, very stingy person ( bass )
  • Doralice, sister of the two, sensible woman (soprano)
  • Mascherone, servant Giacintos (bass)
  • Berto, notary, Emilia's father (bass)
  • Lauretta, Doralices' maid (soprano)

Il ricco d'un giorno (Eng: the rich for a day ) is a dramma giocoso in three acts by Antonio Salieri based on a text by Lorenzo Da Ponte .

The first performance of the work took place on December 6, 1784 in the Vienna Burgtheater , the first modern re-performance in December 2004 in Salieri's hometown Legnago .

The libretto for Il ricco d'un giorno is Da Ponte's first opera text. It already contains preliminary studies for later famous opera characters such as Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni (1787). Despite many allusions to current events (such as the rise of the Montgolfière in 1783 ), the dramaturgically rather clumsy libretto Da Pontes could not find the approval of contemporaries. Salieri's setting was only able to make up for its shortcomings to a limited extent, and so the opera was canceled after only six performances, despite many successful numbers.

After this failure, Salieri moved to the camp of Da Ponte's strongest competitor in Vienna, Giovanni Battista Casti , thus clearing the way for the poet's congenial collaboration with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Only at the end of 1787 began a new phase of rapprochement between Salieri and Da Ponte, from which u. a. the successful opera Axur, re d'Ormus should emerge. Further products of the Salieri / Da Ponte collaboration were:

  • Il Talismano (1788)
  • Il pastor fido (1789)
  • La Cifra (1789)
  • Così fan tutte (approx. 1789) - fragment

For his pasticcio L'Ape musicale (dt. The musical bee ), conceived in 1789, Da Ponte reused the trio “Permettete, Emilia bella” from Il ricco d'un giorno . In addition to other popular numbers from Salieri's operas, the work also includes music by Cimarosa , Gassmann , Martín y Soler , Mozart , Paisiello and others. a.

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