Nerina e Nibbio
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| Title: | Nerina e Nibbio |
| Shape: | intermezzo |
| Original language: | Italian |
| Music: | Giovanni Battista Pergolesi |
| Libretto : | Domenico Caracajus ? |
| Premiere: | January 1732 |
| Place of premiere: | Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo |
| Place and time of the action: | a garden / grotto |
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Nerina e Nibbio (also Nibbio e Nerina ; no title is given in the libretto) is an operatic intermezzo in two parts by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi . The libretto was probably written by Domenico Caracajus . The work was premiered in January 1732 at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples between the three acts of the opera seria La Salustia by the same composer. The music has not been preserved.
Work history
Nerina e Nibbio is the first of Pergolesi's three opera intermezzi. It was performed between acts of his opera La Salustia in January 1732 at the Teatro San Bartolomeo . The soprano castrato Nicolò Grimaldi ("Nicolini") was originally planned for the premiere of this opera . But he fell ill during the rehearsal period and died on January 1, 1732 before the premiere. The seventeen-year-old Soprano Castrato Gioacchino Conti (“Gizziello”) was called in from Rome to replace him . Pergolesi therefore had to make some changes to La Salustia at short notice . The premiere could only take place in the second half of January.
Domenico Caracajus is presumed to be the text author of the intermezzo played between the acts of La Salustia . Caracajus also composed the music for the recitatives of the second part of the Intermezzo - probably because Pergolesi ran out of time due to the necessary reworking of the main opera.
The soprano Celeste Resse (Nerina) and the buffo bass Gioacchino Corrado (Nibbio) sang at the premiere in January 1732 at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples. Both singers were then specialized in comical interlude roles. Celeste Resse is probably identical to Celeste Gismondi, who later became known as "La Celestina" through performances of operas by Johann Adolf Hasse and Georg Friedrich Handel . In the following years Corrado also sang in the world premieres of Pergolesi's La serva padrona and La contadina astuta .
The music of the intermezzo has not been preserved.
Web links
- Nerina e Nibbio (Giovanni Battista Pergolesi) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
- Libretto (Italian), Naples 1732. Digitized at Google Books . The text of the Intermezzi can be found in the appendix.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Winton Dean: Nicolini. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- ↑ a b Helmut Hucke, Dale E. Monson: Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- ^ Record of the performance from January 1732 in the Teatro San Bartolomeo in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna .
- ^ Reinhard Strohm : Essays on Handel and Italian Opera. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1985, ISBN 0-521-26428-6 , p. 251.
- ^ Centro Studi Pergolesi - Le opere , accessed on October 8, 2016.
Li prodigi della divina grazia nella conversione e morte di S. Guglielmo duca d'Aquitania (Dramma sacro, 1731) | La Salustia (Opera seria, 1732) | Nerina e Nibbio (Intermezzo, 1732) | Lo frate 'nnamorato (Commedia per musica, 1732) | Il prigionier superbo (Opera seria, 1733) | La serva padrona (Intermezzo, 1733) | Adriano in Siria (Opera seria, 1734) | La contadina astuta (Intermezzo, 1734) | L'olimpiade (Opera seria, 1735) | Il Flaminio (Commedia per musica, 1735)