L'impresario delle Canarie
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| Title: | L'impresario delle Canarie |
Image from the libretto of 1728 |
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| Shape: | intermezzo |
| Original language: | Italian |
| Music: | First setting by Domenico Sarro |
| Libretto : | Pietro Metastasio |
| Premiere: | February 1, 1724 |
| Place of premiere: | Naples |
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L'impresario delle Canarie is a libretto to an opera - interlude in two parts, the Metastasio is attributed. It was performed for the first time on February 1, 1724 in the setting by Domenico Sarro in the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples between the acts of his opera Didone abbandonata . It was also set to music under the name Dorina e Nibbio .
The work was not included in the new edition of Metastasio's works published by Anna Laura Bellini in 2002, as Bellini does not consider the authenticity to be assured.
A German version of the libretto under the name The Opera Masters on the Canary Islands was published in Saint Petersburg in 1733.
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This short interlude is about the opera director Nibbio from the Canary Islands, who wants to hire the prima donna Dorina. After she has played him a scene as Cleopatra tied up, he offers her a blank contract.
The following table of contents is based on the libretto used by Leonardo Leo in 1748 .
First part
Dorina urges her servants to prepare everything for the arrival of the expected opera director Nibbio. He comes from the Canary Islands to advertise actors for his newly opened opera house there. Money doesn't matter to him. He asks Dorina to sing something to him. At first she is shy, but then sings her aria. Nibbio is thrilled and now boasts of his own musical knowledge. In this way he composed fifteen Singspiels in less than a month. He's now also performing a song. However, his performance is interrupted by Dorina's maid as she is still invited to a banquet. Nibbio still wants to finish his aria and explains that he will take a walk and come back afterwards.
Second part
Dorina has put on the theater costume for her performance today and is having her tailors adjust it. Nibbio comes back. Since Dorina does not want to be interrupted, Nibbio chases the tailors away. He promises her that the applause from the stage will be worth every effort. Dorina, on the other hand, complains about the moodiness of the audience. What she fears most is the scene in which she is supposed to portray Cleopatra tied up today. Nibbio persuades her to play this scene for him and is surprised that it does not contain any of the usual arias. He is now performing one of his own arias. When Dorina now turns to the employment contract, Nibbio hands her a blank contract, in which she can use the fee herself. She shamelessly exploits this by stating that she only gets leading roles, always has to sing the longest arias, the lyrics only come from poets who are friends, and that in addition to her salary, she receives all conceivable luxury goods and at least two gifts a week. Nibbio agrees with everything. Both now imagine the enthusiasm and generosity of the future audience.
In the original version set to music by Dominico Sarro, the second part ends with Dorina feeling harassed by Nibbio. The contract will not be concluded for the time being.
history
This intermezzo is Metastasio's only contribution to the comic opera . It stands in the tradition of Benedetto Marcello's satire Il teatro alla moda , published four years earlier . The practices described therein were well known to Metastasio. He was aware of the weaknesses of the opera seria and wanted to reform it from within. In his letters he repeatedly complained about the treatment of his libretti by composers, singers and theater directors.
Within twenty years the work was set to music six times, four of them for Venice. The version by Leonardo Leo was the most popular at the time . In recent times the versions by Domenico Sarro and Padre Martini have been performed occasionally, for example by the Semperoper Dresden in the 2012/2013 season (Sarro) and 2014 (Martini).
Settings
The following composers used this libretto for an opera:
| year | composer | premiere | Performance location | Remarks | |
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| 1724 | Domenico Sarro | February 1, 1724, Teatro San Bartolomeo | Naples | as Intermezzo Dorina e Nibbio for Didone abbandonata ; Revised in 1730 in the Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo in Venice and in 1737 as L'Impresario - The Master of the Opera in the King's Theater on the Haymarket in London | |
| 1725 | Tomaso Albinoni | November 24th 1725, Teatro San Cassiano | Venice | also on December 26, 1728 at the Teatro Regio Ducale in Milan; on December 11, 1731 and February 6, 1732 at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice |
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| 1726 | Pietro Vincenzo Chiocchetti | Carnival 1726, Teatro Sant'Agostino | Genoa | also in January 1742 | |
| 1729 | Giuseppe Maria Orlandini | 1729, Teatro San Cassiano | Venice | Performance unsure | |
| 1739 | Leonardo Leo | 1739, Real Sitio de Prado | Madrid | on December 26, 1741 at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice; 1748 in the palace theater in Potsdam ; 1749 in the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice |
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| 1744 | Giovanni Battista Martini (Padre Martini) | 1744, private performance | Bologna | also in Como in 1958 |
Recordings
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Giovanni Battista Martini :
- L'impresario delle Canarie . Record with Maria Luisa Gavioli (Dorina), Otello Borgonovo (Nibbio) and I Commendianti in musica della Cetra under the direction of Piero Santi , CETRA LPC55025 (1959/1966?)
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Domenico Sarro :
- L'impressario delle Canarie . CD with Sara Mingardo (Dorina), Giorgio Gatti (Nibbio) and the chamber orchestra "In Canto" under the direction of Gabriele Catalucci , Bongiovanni 2147 (1992/1994)
- Scarlatti: La Dirindina , Cimarosa: Il Maestro di Cappella , Sarro: L'Impresario delle Canarie . DVD with the Ars Cantus orchestra under the direction of Riccardo Cirri . Bongiovanni AB 20023 (2012)
Web links
- Full text libretto and work information on librettidopera.it (Italian), accessed on 23 September 2014.
Digital copies
- ↑ Libretto (German), Saint Petersburg 1733 as digitized version at the Göttingen Digitization Center .
- ↑ a b Libretto (Italian / German) of the opera by Leonardo Leo, Potsdam 1748 as a digitized version at the Berlin State Library .
- ↑ Libretto (Italian) of the opera by Domenico Sarro, Naples 1724 as full text (PDF) at librettidopera.it .
- ^ Libretto (Italian) of the opera by Tomaso Albinoni, Milan 1728. Digitized in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
- ^ Libretto (Italian) of the opera by Leonardo Leo, Venice 1741. Digitized in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Don Neville: Impresario delle Canarie, L '. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- ^ Domenico Pietropaolo and Mary Ann Parker: The Baroque Libretto , University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2011, ISBN 978-1-4426-4163-1 , p. 35 ( online at Google Books).
- ↑ DORINA E NIBBIO / CONTRASCENA - Dresden, Semperoper . Review of the 2012 performance at Operapoint , accessed November 14, 2014.
- ↑ DRESDEN / Semperoper: “L'impresario delle Canarie” by GB Martini & Sub Plot by Luca Ronchetti . Review of the 2014 performance in Online Merker , accessed on November 14, 2014.
- ^ Don Neville: Metastasio [Trapassi], Pietro (Antonio Domenico Bonaventura). In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- ↑ L'impresario delle isole Canarie (Domenico Sarro) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on November 11, 2014.
- ↑ List of stage works by Domenico Natale Sarri based on the MGG at Operone, accessed on November 11, 2014.
- ^ Dorina e Nibbio (Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on November 11, 2014.
- ^ L'impresario delle Canarie (Pietro Vincenzo Chiocchetti) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on November 11, 2014.
- ^ L'impresario dell'isole Canarie (Giuseppe Maria Orlandini) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on November 11, 2014.
- ↑ LEO, Leonardo de im Dizionario Biografico at Treccani.it (Italian), accessed on October 11, 2014.
- ^ L'impresario delle Isole Canarie (Leonardo Leo) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on November 11, 2014.
- ^ List of stage works by Leonardo Leo based on the MGG at Operone, accessed on October 11, 2014.
- ^ L'impresario delle Canarie (Giovanni Battista Martini) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna , accessed on November 11, 2014.
- ^ L'impresario delle Isole Canarie (Giovanni Battista Martini) at Opening Night! Opera & Oratorio Premieres , Stanford University, accessed November 11, 2014.
- ↑ Un libreto sobre Canarias para el Barroco italiano on revistacanarii.com (Spanish), accessed on November 11, 2014.
- ^ Record of the record of Padre Martini's setting in the library catalog sbn.it , accessed on November 14, 2014.
- ^ Sarro: L'impressario delle Canarie; Sonata for flute & strings . CD information from Allmusic , accessed on November 14, 2014.
- ^ Scarlatti: La Dirindina; Cimarosa: Il Maestro di Cappella; Sarro: L'Impresario delle Canarie . DVD information from Allmusic , accessed November 14, 2014.