Le donne letterate

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Opera dates
Original title: Le donne letterate
Shape: Commedia per musica
Original language: Italian
Music: Antonio Salieri
Libretto : Giovanni Gastone Boccherini
Literary source: Molière
Premiere: January 10, 1770
Place of premiere: Vienna, Burgtheater
Playing time: 2 hours and 45 minutes
Place and time of the action: Naples, in the house of Baggeo
people
  • Don Baggeo, old wealthy person ( bass )
  • Donna Artemia, his wife ( soprano )
  • Donna Elvira, sister of Artemias ( old )
  • Corilla, whose niece, Don Baggeo's eyeball (soprano)
  • Don Prudenzio, Baggeo's brother, lover ("amante corrisposto") Corillas ( tenor )
  • Don Vertigine, tender and ridiculous poet, conceited lover of Corilla (tenor)
  • Don Tirmètro, man of letters and doctor, conceited lover of Corilla (bass)
  • Don Filiberto, teacher of Don Baggios (bass)

Le donne letterate (Eng. The well-read women ) is a commedia per musica in three acts by Antonio Salieri based on a text by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini based on Molière's comedy Les femmes savantes . The first performance took place on January 10, 1770 in the Vienna Burgtheater . Another performance took place in Prague in autumn 1773.

The text to Salieri's first surviving opera ( La vestale from 1769 is lost) was originally intended for Florian Leopold Gassmann . Since he was traveling, the textbook was handed over to his student Salieri, who laid the foundation for his great career as a music dramatist with this composition.

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