La calamita de 'cuori
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| Original title: | La calamita de 'cuori |
| Shape: | Dramma giocoso |
| Original language: | Italian |
| Music: | Antonio Salieri |
| Libretto : | Giovanni De Gamerra |
| Literary source: | Carlo Goldoni |
| Premiere: | October 11, 1774 |
| Place of premiere: | Vienna , Kärntnertortheater |
| Playing time: | 2½ hours |
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La calamita de 'cuori (Eng. The Magnet of Hearts ) is a dramma giocoso in three acts by Antonio Salieri based on a text by Giovanni De Gamerra based on Carlo Goldoni . According to other sources, the adaptation of the text is a joint production by Giovanni Battista Casti , Domenico Poggi and Giovanni Gastone Boccherini .
The first performance took place on October 11, 1774 in the Vienna Kärntnertortheater . Another performance took place in 1776 in the Small Court Theater in Dresden.
The Historisch-Kritische Theaterchronik von Wien writes about the music of the opera that “some connoisseurs and lovers of music claim that it is artificial, beautiful, harmonious, and that it does Mr. Salieri much honor. Others claim that the subject is too childish and the music, although beautiful, too serious for the book. ”Unreserved praise, however, can be found in an entry in a Viennese copy of the libretto:“ Jeri otto giorno sono, è andanta in Scena L 'opera del Salieri La Calamita de' Cori quale ha fatto un incontro strepitissimo esser un complesso di musica di un Stile assai bello, e brilliant non potendosi trovare in tutta l'operà un'aria, che possasi dire non essere un gran bel pezzo di musica. ”Despite the divided opinions on La calamita de 'cuori , the opera was by far the most lucrative and successful piece of the season and surpassed it with a revenue of 639 guilders, 23 kreuzers (at the premiere; around 400 guilders in subsequent performances) so even Noverre's ballet Les Horace .
In this work, the extremely colorful orchestral treatment is immediately noticeable, which is evident not only in the refined orchestrated arias, but also in some purely instrumental numbers: the gallant world of the libretto prompted Salieri to compose various lovely minuets (for the ballroom scene of the third Act) and a sinfonia including serenade for two orchestras (!) In the second act. The symphonia for double orchestra was performed again at the Würzburg Mozart Festival 2009 by the Mannheim Mozart Orchestra under the direction of Thomas Fey for the first time since the composer's lifetime.
Further settings of this material come from Baldassare Galuppi ( 1752 ) and Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi ( 1789 ).
Web links
- La calamita de 'cuori (Antonio Salieri) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
- La calamita de 'cuori (Salieri, Antonio) : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
Individual evidence
- ^ Corago
- ^ A b John A. Rice: Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1998, ISBN 0-226-71126-9 .