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| Gamace, ''peasant, Bridegroom of Chitteria''
| Gamace, ''peasant, Bridegroom of Chitteria''
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|[[tenor]]
|Bussani
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| Chitteria, ''bride of Gamace''
| Chitteria, ''bride of Gamace''
|[[mezzo-soprano]]
|[[mezzo-soprano]]
|Eberardi
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| Don Chisciotte, ''wandering knight''
| Don Chisciotte, ''wandering knight''
|[[tenor]]
|[[tenor]]
|Schiettini
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| Sancio Pancia, ''his squire''
| Sancio Pancia, ''his squire''
|[[tenor]]
|[[tenor]]
|Boscoli
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| Menco, ''peasant''
| Menco, ''peasant''
|[[tenor]]
|[[tenor]]
|Kurzin
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| Lena, ''peasant in love with Menco''
| Lena, ''peasant in love with Menco''
|[[soprano]]
|[[soprano]]
|Tagliafferi
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| Il Cavalier del Bosco, ''knight''
| Il Cavalier del Bosco, ''knight''
|[[tenor]]
|[[tenor]]
|Rizzoli
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| Nasone, ''his squire''
| Nasone, ''his squire''
|[[bass]]
|[[bass]]
|Santini
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| Rosa, ''a peasant's wife''
| Rosa, ''a peasant's wife''
|[[soprano]]
|[[soprano]]
|Chiavacci
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| Gnocco, ''head of the cooks''
| Gnocco, ''head of the cooks''
|[[tenor]]
|[[tenor]]
|Deville
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| Alfeo, ''a male peasant who dances''
| Alfeo, ''a male peasant who dances''

Revision as of 15:53, 13 April 2019

Template:Salieri operas Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace (Don Quixote at Camacho's Wedding) composed by Antonio Salieri (1750–1825), is an Italian-language opera in one act (five scenes), originally denoted a divertimento treatrale. The libretto was written by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini, dancer, poet and stage manager, brother of the composer Luigi Boccherini. The work was a hybrid opera buffa and ballet with the ballet's chorographed by Jean-Georges Noverre.

This opera was the third of Salieri's to be publicly performed, as well as his third collaboration with Boccherini. This was Salieri's fourth complete opera.[1]

Performance history

Salieri, wrote Don Chisciotte in Vienna in 1770, according to his first biographer Mosel it may have been the second work he wrote. It received its first performance during Carnival season the next year at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna, most likely on January 6, 1771.

Roles

Role Voice type Premiere cast, Carnival, 1770 or 1771
(Conductor: Antonio Salieri (most likely))
Gamace, peasant, Bridegroom of Chitteria tenor Bussani
Chitteria, bride of Gamace mezzo-soprano Eberardi
Don Chisciotte, wandering knight tenor Schiettini
Sancio Pancia, his squire tenor Boscoli
Menco, peasant tenor Kurzin
Lena, peasant in love with Menco soprano Tagliafferi
Il Cavalier del Bosco, knight tenor Rizzoli
Nasone, his squire bass Santini
Rosa, a peasant's wife soprano Chiavacci
Gnocco, head of the cooks tenor Deville
Alfeo, a male peasant who dances non-singing role
Giocondina, a female peasant who dances non-singing role
Chorus of peasants (male and female) and cooks
Ballet of peasants

Synopsis

Time: the 17th century
Place:

Summary:

Structure, genre, critical reception

Recordings

There is no known studio recording of the complete opera; however, Antonio Salieri: Overtures, (Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra (Bratislava), conducted by Michael Dittrich, Naxos 8.554838) has a recording of the overture.

See also

Main articles: List of compositions by Antonio Salieri and List of operas by Salieri

Notes

  1. ^ Rice, pp. 153-62

References

  • Rudolph Angermüller, Antonio Salieri, 3 Vol. (Munich 1971–74)
  • Volkmar Braunbehrens, Maligned Master – the Real Story of Antonio Salieri, transl. Eveline L. Kanes (New York 1992)
  • V. Della Croce/F. Blanchetti, Il caso Salieri (Turin 1994)
  • I. F. Edler v. Mosel, Über das Leben und die Werke des Anton Salieri (Vienna 1827; reprinted Bad Honnef 1999, edited with notes by Rudolph Angermüller)
  • John A. Rice, Antonio Salieri and Viennese Opera (Chicago 1998), ISBN 0-226-71125-0, ISBN 978-0-226-71125-6
  • Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Salieri: Rival of Mozart (Kansas City 1989)
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