Il ricco d'un giorno
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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 |
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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.
Web links
- Il ricco d'un giorno (Antonio Salieri) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
- The rich man one day. Libretto (Italian / German), Vienna 1784. Digitized version of the Munich digitization center .