Olivo e Pasquale

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Opera dates
Original title: Olivo e Pasquale
Title page of the libretto, Rome 1827

Title page of the libretto, Rome 1827

Shape: Melodramma giocoso in two acts
Original language: Italian
Music: Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto : Jacopo Ferretti
Literary source: Simeone Antonio Sografi
Premiere: January 7, 1827
Place of premiere: Teatro Valle , Rome
Place and time of the action: Lisbon, in the house of the two brothers
people
  • Il signor Olivo, one of the brothers, merchant in Lisbon ( baritone )
  • Il signor Pasquale, one of the brothers, merchant in Lisbon ( bass )
  • Isabella, daughter of Olivos ( soprano )
  • Camillo, apprentice ( old )
  • Monsieur Le Bross, dealer from Càdiz ( tenor )
  • Il signor Columella, poor traveling nobleman (baritone)
  • Matilde, Isabella's maid ( mezzo-soprano )
  • Diego, servant in the house of the two brothers (baritone)

Olivo e Pasquale is a “melodramma giocoso” in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti , based on a libretto by Jacopo Ferretti and based on a work by Simeone Antonio Sografi .

action

The setting is Lisbon .

The brothers Olivo and Pasquale are shop owners in Lisbon: Olivo is brutal, Pasquale shy. Olivo's daughter Isabella loves Camillo, a young apprentice, but her father wants her to marry Le Bross, a wealthy merchant from Cádiz . Isabella admits that Le Bross loves someone else, and when he asks her to give his name, at first she does not dare to tell the truth and pretends to be Columella, an old vain and ridiculous man, and only afterwards that it's Camillo. Olivo learns that his daughter dares to defy his will, is furious and Le Bross, hit by his disproportionate reaction, becomes Isabella's ally and promises to help her marry Camillo. The lovers threaten to commit suicide if Olivo does not agree to their wedding, but Olivo does not believe them and refuses to give in. When shots are fired, Pasquale passes out and Olivo explains that Isabella would rather be Camillo's wife than die. Fortunately, the suicide threat turns out to be untrue and the couple appears at the door. Olivo hugs them and blesses their union.

Origin and performance

Domenico Cosselli (Olivo of the world premiere)
Giuseppe Frezzolini (Pasquale of the world premiere)

The first performance took place at the Teatro Valle in Rome on January 7, 1827. The baritone Domenico Cosselli (Olivo), the bass Giuseppe Frezzoline (Pasquale), the soprano Emilia Bonini (Isabella), the alto Anna Scudellari Coselli (Camillo), the tenor Giovanni Battista Verger (Le Bross), the baritone Luigi Garofalo ( Columella), the mezzo-soprano Agnese Loiselet (Matilde) and the baritone Stanislao Prò (Diego).

In the second performance on September 1, 1827 in the Teatro Nuovo , Vincenzo Galli (Olivo), Gennaro Luzio (Pasquale), Annetta Fischer (Isabella), Francesco Regoli (Camillo), Francesca Checcherini (Matilde), Sig. Manzi (Le Bross) , Sig. De Nicola (Columella) and Giuseppe Papi (Diego). Many performances in other Italian theaters followed.

literature

  • John Stewart Allitt: Donizetti: in the light of Romanticism and the teaching of Johann Simon Mayr. Element Books, Shaftesbury (UK) 1991; Element, Rockport, MA (USA)
  • William Ashbrook: Donizetti and His Operas. Cambridge University Press, 1982, ISBN 0-521-23526-X
  • William Ashbrook: Donizetti, Gaetano. In: Stanley Sadie (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Vol. One. MacMillan Publishers, London 1998, ISBN 0-333-73432-7 , ISBN 1-56159-228-5
  • William Ashbrook, Sarah Hibberd (2001), Amanda Holden (Eds.): The New Penguin Opera Guide. Penguin Putnam, New York 2001, ISBN 0-14-029312-4 , pp. 224-247
  • Alfred Loewenberg : Annals of Opera, 1597–1940. 2nd edition. Rowman and Littlefield, 1970
  • Stanley Sadie (Ed.), John Tyrell (Ed.): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . 2nd edition. Macmillan, London 2004, ISBN 978-0-19-517067-2 (hardcover), ISBN 0-19-517067-9 , OCLC 419285866 (eBook)
  • Robert Steiner-Isenmann: Gaetano Donizetti. His life and his operas. Hallwag, Bern 1982, ISBN 3-444-10272-0
  • TG Waidelich: in the fatherland of Haydn, Mozarte and so many other famous composers. An unknown letter from Gaetano Donizetti concerning the distribution of his Opera buffa Olivo e Pasquale in Germany . In: Semantic Islands - Musical mainland for Tibor Kneif on his 65th birthday , Hamburg 1997, pp. 57–62.
  • Herbert Weinstock: Donizetti and the World of Opera in Italy, Paris, and Vienna in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. Pantheon Books, New York 1963, LCCN  63-013703

Web links

Commons : Olivo e Pasquale  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Olivo e Pasquale (Gaetano Donizetti) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna . Retrieved September 1, 2015.