La secchia rapita
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| Original title: | La secchia rapita |
| Shape: | Dramma eroicomico |
| Original language: | Italian |
| Music: | Antonio Salieri |
| Libretto : | Giovanni Gastone Boccherini |
| Literary source: | Alessandro Tassoni |
| Premiere: | October 21, 1772 |
| Place of premiere: | Vienna, Burgtheater |
| Playing time: | approx. 2½ hours |
| Place and time of the action: | Modena |
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La secchia rapita ( The Stolen Bucket ) is a heroic-comic work ("Dramma eroicomico") in three acts by Antonio Salieri based on a text by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini based on the epic epic by Alessandro Tassoni . The opera's premiere took place on October 21, 1772 in the Vienna Burgtheater .
The piece was later performed in Mannheim (1774), Dresden (1775) and Modena (1787). The only modern re-performance of this work took place in December 1990 at the Teatro Comunale di Modena under the direction of Frans Brüggen .
The instrumentation of the work is unusually colorful: Salieri comes up with numerous tonal effects and extensive passages for solo instruments in the score, and surprises with the use of three instead of the usual two timpani for the first time in music history. Salieri accommodates the parodic subject with the satirical exaggeration of traditional patterns. This is expressed in the singing voices, for example, through particularly brilliant coloratura . In two cases Salieri composed the cadenzas normally improvised by the singers and incorporated additional instrumental parts.
The overture of the work can now be found more often on concert programs and CD productions, and some arias of the opera were recorded by the Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli . Other settings of this material come from Giuseppe Francesco Bianchi (1794) and Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli (1793, lost). Giulio Ricordi composed an opera of the same name in 1910 under the pseudonym Jules Burgmein based on a libretto by Renato Simoni .
Web links
- La secchia rapita (Antonio Salieri) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna