La fiera di Venezia
La fiera di Venezia (The fair in Venice) is a three-act opera buffa, described as a commedia per musica, by Antonio Salieri, set to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini (brother of the composer Luigi Boccherini).
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Performance history
The opera premiered with great success on 29 January 1772 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria.[1][2] La fiera di Venezia turned out to be one of Salieri's best regarded works and during his lifetime was staged more than thirty times throughout Europe.[3]
Roles
| Role | Voice type |
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| Falsirena | soprano |
| Calloandra | soprano |
| Cristallina | soprano |
| Ostrogoto | tenor |
| Rasoio | tenor |
| Cecchino | tenor |
| Grifagno | bass |
| Belfusto | bass |
Recordings
- Complete recording – Falsirena: Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, Grifagno: Furio Zanasi,; Calloandra: Dilyara Idrisova, Ostrogoto: Krystian Adam, Cristallina: Natalia Rubiś, Rasojo: Emanuele D'Aguanno, Belfusto: Giorgio Caoduro; choir and Orchestra l'arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt DHM 2CD 2019
References
- Casaglia, Gherardo (2005)."La fiera di Venezia, 29 January 1772". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
- Music and History.com page Archived 2007-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
- "The Mozart–Salieri Connection" Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine by Volkmar Braunbehrens
External links
- La fiera di Venezia: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- Libretto, Munich Digitization Center
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