Masaniello furioso

Work data
Title:	Masaniello furioso
Original title:	Masagniello furioso or The Neapolitan Fishermen's Outrage
Title page of the libretto from 1709
Shape:	Musical show game
Original language:	German , Italian
Music:	Reinhard Keizer
Libretto :	Barthold enemy
Premiere:	1706
Place of premiere:	Hamburg
Place and time of the action:	Area in and around Naples, 1647
people
Duca d'Arcos , Viceroy, in love with Mariane ( bass ) or ( alto ) Don Velasco , general and cousin of Don Pedro ( tenor ) Don Antonio . Spanish marquis, in love with Mariane ( baritone ) Don Pedro . Spanish marquis, in love with Aloysia (tenor) Mariane , Marquise, in love with Don Antonio ( soprano ) Aloysia , wife of Don Velasco (soprano) Masaniello , fisherman and head of the rebels (baritone) Perrone , bandit general (bass) Bassian , fruit grocer (tenor) Choirs and entourage of fishermen, bandits, slaves, the duke's bodyguards, satyrs, Neapolitan soldiers, prisoners, women, executioners and all kinds of rabble

Masaniello furioso is a baroque - opera in three acts by Reinhard Keizer . The libretto written Barthold enemy based on a true story from the year 1647. It deals with the uprising of the fisherman Tommaso Aniello against foreign rule of the Spaniards in Naples.

action

first act

The city of Naples is occupied by Spaniards under the viceroy Arcos. He and his entourage enjoy the peace and quiet in a hermitage near Pozuolo. Bassian appears and urges them to return to Naples, as the people are rebelling because of the high customs. The fisherman Masaniello has teamed up with the bandit general Perrone to free the city from Spanish rule.

Antonio and Mariane confess their love near the palace.

Aloysia, her husband Velasco and Pedro ensure their friendship. Velasco leaves them to face the rebels. Pedro is secretly in love with Aloysia.

Pedro, Arcos, Antonio and Mariane discuss the strength of the uprising. Velasco reports on the difficulties the soldiers had in holding their position against the now 40,000 rebels.

Masaniello arrives with a number of insurgents. There is a dispute between the two parties.

Antonio accuses Mariane of infidelity with Arcos. This denies it, but admits that Arcos advertised her.

Pedro says goodbye to Aloysia and Velasco without giving the actual reason, his unrequited love for Aloysia.

Second act

In the port of Naples, Antonio sings about love and jealousy. Bassian appears looking for Masaniello.

Antonio is captured by Perrone and Masaniello.

While searching for Antonio, Mariane meets Arcos. He comes to terms with her love for Antonio. Velasco and Aloysia join them. Aloysia reports on Antonio's arrest. Mariane is desperate.

Masaniello lets fire on the tower of the citadel.

Mariane, who is still looking for Antonio, meets a captain of the viceroy's life guard. He brings her a letter in which Arcos makes her Duchess and his heiress.

Velasco has received a letter from the absent Pedro. He asks Aloysia to answer him and persuade him to return.

In his exile at Aversa, Pedro commemorates his love for Aloysia.

On the shores of the Gulf, Antonio and other slaves carry water into a galley under the supervision of Perrone. Mariane finds Antonio there. She gets his release on condition that she remains as a pledge herself, while Antonio is supposed to raise a ransom of 20,000 kroner.

Third act

Executions take place in the market square. Arcos appears with his bodyguard, Velasco, Aloysia and Bassian. Masaniello arrives with his followers. Arcos escapes with the help of his guard. Masaniello and Perrone are now adjudicating some prisoners and giving death sentences for minor offenses.

Velasco invites Masaniello to negotiate with peace negotiations on tariffs in the town hall.

Pedro has received Aloysia's letter and is returning, but is still in hiding for the time being. Velasco greets the released Antonio. Now Pedro reveals himself.

On the Gulf shore, Perrone reports to Mariane that Arcos has paid the ransom and releases her. Mariane is disappointed that the ransom did not come from Antonio.

Peace negotiations take place in Naples City Hall.

Antonio is courting Aloysia in a garden at the Palace of Velasco. This indignantly rejects him. Mariane is jealous. Confused by Antonio's behavior, Aloysia falls asleep. Pedro watches her and tries to kiss her. When she wakes up, she confuses him briefly for Velasco and hugs him. Velasco watches this. He attacks Pedro. However, the latter can steal his sword from him.

In the negotiations, Perrone submitted to Arcos.

Antonio regrets his infidelity to Mariane. However, she does not want to forgive him. Antonio stabs his sword in the chest, but survives and faints. Mariane now forgives him.

Masaniello has gone mad and gives nonsensical orders. He is shot by four masked people and Perrone.

Aloysia and Pedro ask Velasco for forgiveness. Velasco forces her to admit her infidelity in writing. He wants to part with Aloysia. Pedro explains that he kissed Aloysia without being recognized while she was sleeping. After Arco's intercession, Velasco has now forgiven her. Pedro decides to spend the rest of his life in solitude.

layout

The plot is based on the 1663 chronicle from the Theatrum Europaeum , written by Johann Georg Schleder . She is overlaid by two love stories. There are also references to contemporary historical events from 17th century Hamburg.

This material was also set to music by other composers, such as Daniel-François-Esprit Auber ( La muette de Portici , 1828), Henry Rowley Bishop ( Masaniello, the Fisherman of Naples , 1825), Michele Carafa ( Masaniello, ou Le pêcheur napolitain , 1827), Stefano Pavesi ( Fenella ossia La muta di Portici , 1831) and Wiktor Każyński ( Fenella , 1840).

The opera is mainly written in German, but also contains some arias in Italian. The person of Masaniello is one of the most unusual character studies in baroque opera, and Mariane is one of the composer's most poignant heroines.

Performance history

The work was first performed in 1706 at the Hamburg Gänsemarktoper . On June 18, 1727 it came back on the program in a version revised by Georg Philipp Telemann .

There have been several performances of the opera in recent times:

• 1967 in the Berlin State Opera , East Berlin , adapted by Johanna Rudolph .
• 1973 in Basel .
• 1985 in Heidelberg under the direction of Caspar Richter and the direction of Peter Osolnik.
• 1989 in Bremen with the Fiori musicali under the direction of Thomas Albert . The soloists were David Cordier (Duca d'Arcos), Wilfried Jochens (Don Valesco), Harry van der Kamp (Don Antonio), Hein Meens (Don Pedro), Barbara Schlick (Mariane), Dorothea Röschmann (Aloysia), Michael Schopper ( Masaniello), Jelle Dreyer (Perrone) and Winfried Minkus (Bassian). A live recording of the performance on May 8, 1989 is available on CD.
• 1992 in the Hebbel-Theater Berlin with the Berlin Chamber Opera under the direction of Brynmor Jones and the direction of Henry Akina . Soloists were Stella Doufexis , Mieko Kanesugi, Miriam Vollbrechtshausen, Silvia Weiss , Tilman Birschel, Andreas Cantow, Ian Comboy, Bruno Fath, Markus Köhler , Clemens-C. Löschmann and Johannes Schwärsky .
• On June 10, 1996 at the Handel Festival in Halle . The Bremen Baroque Orchestra played under the direction of Thomas Albert . Soloists were Ann Monoyios , Patrizia Rozario (soprano), Simon Clulow (alto), Axel Steven Everaert, Markus Brutscher , Winfried Mikus (tenor), Raimund Nolte , Michael Schopper and Carl-Christof Gebhardt (bass).
• 2001 in the Stuttgart State Opera . Alessandro De Marchi was the musical director and Tilman Knabe directed .
• On September 7th, 2008 in the town hall Biberach . The Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie Konstanz played under the direction of Andreas Winter.
• A performance planned for 2014 in Augsburg was canceled at short notice.

literature

• Killy Literature Lexicon Volume 3 Dep – Fre , 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020376-9 , p. 399 . Here you can find references to further literature specifically on this work.

Web links

Commons : Masaniello furioso  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Work data for Masaniello furioso based on the MGG with discography at Operone
• Libretto from 1709 as a digitized version in the "Directory of 18th Century Prints Published in the German-Speaking Area"  in the German Digital Library
• Sheet music and performance details from Schott Music , accessed on July 28, 2014.
• Details on CD publication in the German National Library , accessed on July 28, 2014.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Supplement to the CD Masaniello furioso , CPO 999 110-2, 1989.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Masaniello furioso or The Neapolitan fishermen's indignation. Reclam's Opernlexikon, p. 1633 (c) 2001 Philipp Reclam jun. Digital Library , Volume 52.
3. ↑ John H. Roberts:  Masagniello. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
4. ↑ Honegger / Massenkeil: Das große Lexikon der Musik , Herder, Freiburg 1976, fourth volume, p. 315.
5. ↑ Martin Krieger: Patriotism in Hamburg: Identity Formation in the Age of Early Enlightenment , Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2008, p. 59.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} Reinhard Keiser's opera "Masaniello furioso" in Heidelberg , Austrian music magazine. Volume 40, Issue 5 from May 1985, p. 253 f, accessed on July 28, 2014.
7. ^ History of the Berlin Chamber Opera from Klassik heute , accessed on July 28, 2014.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Work data and table of contents at operabaroque (French), accessed on July 28, 2014.
9. ^ Festival review of the Handel Festival in Halle 1996 in Online Musik Magazin , accessed on July 28, 2014.
10. ^ "Masaniello furioso" first performance in Stuttgart on ShortNews , accessed on July 28, 2014.
11. ↑ Georg-Friedrich Kühn's review of the Stuttgart performance from 2001 , accessed on July 28, 2014.
12. ↑ Performance dates at Schott Music , accessed on July 28, 2014.
13. ↑ "Confidence is shaken" - Theater and university cancel opera project in the Augsburger Allgemeine , accessed on July 28, 2014.