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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 | Francesco Bussani |
| Chitteria, bride of Gamace | mezzo-soprano | Teresa Eberardi |
| Don Chisciotte, wandering knight | bass | Vincenzo Schiettini |
| Sancio Pancia, his squire | tenor | Antonio Boscoli |
| Menco, peasant | tenor | Kurzin |
| Lena, peasant in love with Menco | soprano | Gabriella Tagliafferi |
| Il Cavalier del Bosco, knight | tenor | Rizzoli |
| Nasone, his squire | bass | Santini |
| Rosa, a peasant's wife | soprano | Clementina 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: rural Spain, the wedding near the farmhouse of Gamace.
Summary: Don Quoxite and Sancho Panza arrive at the wedding of Comacho (Gamace) and participate in dances and verbal intrigues as the wedding feast is prepared.
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
Notes
- ^ 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)
External links
- Libretto of Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace, by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini, 1770
- Fullscore manuscript copy of Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace, by Antonio Salieri, 1770
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