Il mondo della luna (Galuppi)

Il mondo della luna (The World of the Moon) is an opera (dramma giocoso) in 3 acts by Baldassare Galuppi. The Italian-language libretto was by Carlo Goldoni. It premiered on 29 January 1750 at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice.[1]

Il mondo della luna
Opera by Baldassare Galuppi
Illustration from the 1794 publication of Goldoni's libretto
LibrettistCarlo Goldoni
LanguageItalian
Premiere
29 January 1750 (1750-01-29)
Teatro San Moisè, Venice

The music has been described as "clear, with expressivity obtained through melodic and textural changes."[2] Galuppi's music exploits "the capacity of the music to illustrate and portray the text," with special attention for Buonafede, credulous old man who is the central character of the plot.[3]

The opera by Galuppi is the first based on Goldoni's libretto. The same libretto was later also set by several other composers, such as Pedro António Avondano (1765), Giovanni Paisiello (1774 under the title Il credulo deluso, 1783), Gennaro Astarita (1774), Joseph Haydn (1777), Michele Neri Bondi (1790, libretto revised by Domenico Somigli), and Marcos Portugal (1791, in Portuguese, under the title O lunático iludido).[4][5] Paisiello composed four different versions of operas based on this libretto (one of them, 1783, was a reduction in two acts by Marco Coltellini; another, 1774, was performed as Il credulo deluso).[3][6]

Roles
Roles, voice types, premiere cast
Role Voice type Premiere cast, 29 January 1750[7]
(Conductor: – )
Ecclitico, a would-be astrologerbassAlessandro Renda
Buonafede, credulous manbassFrancesco Baglioni
Flaminia, daughter of BuonafedesopranoDionisia Lepri
Clarice, another daughter of BuonafedecontraltoSerafina Penni
Lisetta, maidsopranoCostanza Russignuoli
Ernestosoprano (breeches role)Berenice Penni
Cecco, servant of ErnestobassFrancesco Carrattoli

Synopsis

See synopsis in Haydn's Il mondo della luna.

Recordings
1997: Franco Piva, Intermusica Ensemble, Bongiovanni Cat: 2217/19[8][9]

Ecclittico: Giorgio Gatti
Buonafede: Gastone Sarti
Flaminia: Paola Antonucci
Clarice: Barbara di Castri

Lisetta: Patrizia Cigna
Ernesto: Enrico Pacini
Cecco: Claudio Ottino

References

Notes

  1. "Il *mondo della luna" (in Italian). Corago – Università di Bologna. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  2. Monson 1997.
  3. Mellace 2007
  4. "Relazioni opera Il *mondo della luna" (in Italian). Corago – Università di Bologna. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  5. Pierpaolo Polzonetti, Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. p. 30.
  6. "Il Mondo della Luna di Baldassare Galuppi" (in Italian). Cultura e Spettacolo Venezia. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
  7. According to the original libretto, carlogoldoni.it, University of Padua
  8. Steiger, Karsten (2008). Opern-Diskographie: Verzeichnis aller Audio- und Video-Gesamtaufnahmen. Munich: Saur Verlag. p. 155. ISBN 978-3-598-11784-8. (in German)
  9. Morin, Alexander J. "Galuppi – Il mondo della luna". classical.net. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

Sources

  • Monson, Dale E. (1997). "Mondo della luna, Il (i)". In Sadie, Stanley (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. 3. Oxford University Press. pp. 429–430. ISBN 978-0-19-522186-2.
  • Mellace, Raffaele (2007). "Mondo della luna, Il. Dramma giocoso in tre atti di Baldassarre Galuppi (1706-1785)". In Gelli, Piero; Poletti, Filippo (eds.). Dizionario dell'opera 2008 (in Italian). Milan: Baldini Castoldi Dalai. p. 862. ISBN 978-88-6073-184-5. (reproduced online at Opera Manager)
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