L'amor coniugale
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| Title: | L'amor coniugale |
Title page of the libretto, Venice 1805 |
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| Shape: | Farsa sentimentale in one act |
| Original language: | Italian |
| Music: | Johann Simon Mayr |
| Libretto : | Gaetano Rossi |
| Literary source: | Jean Nicolas Bouilly : Libretto for Léonore, ou L'amour conjugal |
| Premiere: | July 26, 1805 |
| Place of premiere: | Teatro Nuovo, Padua |
| Playing time: | approx. 2 ¼ hours |
| Place and time of the action: | Poland, 17th century |
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L'amor coniugale is a “ Farsa sentimentale” in one act, written by the Bavarian composer Johann Simon Mayr . It was premiered on July 26, 1805 at the Teatro Nuovo in Padua . The libretto is by Gaetano Rossi . It is a " rescue opera " based on the textbook of the Opéra-comique Léonore, ou L'amour conjugal by Jean Nicolas Bouilly , set to music by Pierre Gaveaux and premiered in Paris in 1798.
Further settings of the material come from Ferdinando Paër under the title Leonora and by Ludwig van Beethoven under the title Fidelio .
action
The action takes place in a prison in Poland . The jailer Peters has a domestica called Malvino. This is in reality Zeliska, who wants to free her husband, who is wrongly locked in prison. Floreska, Peters daughter, fell in love with Malvino. Peters father would like to organize the wedding, but Malvino does not want to and would rather accompany Peters to prison.
orchestra
The orchestral line-up for the opera includes the following instruments:
- Woodwinds : flute , two oboes (also cor anglais ), two clarinets , two bassoons
- Brass : two horns , two trumpets
- Strings
- Basso continuo
- Incidental music : trumpet
Recordings
- L'amor coniugale , Württemberg Philharmonic Orchestra, Naxos Opera, 2008
Web links
- L'amor coniugale : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- L'amor coniugale (Giovanni Simone Mayr) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
Individual evidence
- ^ Jürgen Maehder : L'amor coniugale. In: Piper's Encyclopedia of Musical Theater . Volume 4: Works. Massine - Piccinni. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-492-02414-9 , pp. 17-18.