Il mondo della luna (Galuppi)
| Il mondo della luna | |
|---|---|
| Opera by Baldassare Galuppi | |
 Illustration from the 1794 publication of Goldoni's libretto | |
| Librettist | Carlo Goldoni |
| Language | Italian |
| Premiere | 29 January 1750 Teatro San Moisè, Venice |
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]
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
[edit]| Role | Voice type | Premiere cast, 29 January 1750[7] (Conductor: – ) |
|---|---|---|
| Ecclitico, a would-be astrologer | bass | Alessandro Renda |
| Buonafede, credulous man | bass | Francesco Baglioni |
| Flaminia, daughter of Buonafede | soprano | Dionisia Lepri |
| Clarice, another daughter of Buonafede | contralto | Serafina Penni |
| Lisetta, maid | soprano | Costanza Russignuoli |
| Ernesto | soprano (breeches role) | Berenice Penni |
| Cecco, servant of Ernesto | bass | Francesco Carrattoli |
Synopsis
[edit]See synopsis in Haydn's Il mondo della luna.
Recordings
[edit]Ecclittico: Giorgio Gatti |
Lisetta: Patrizia Cigna |
References
[edit]Notes
- ^ "Il *mondo della luna" (in Italian). Corago – Università di Bologna. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ^ Monson 1997.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Mellace 2007
- ^ "Relazioni opera Il *mondo della luna" (in Italian). Corago – Università di Bologna. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ^ Pierpaolo Polzonetti, Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. p. 30.
- ^ "Il Mondo della Luna di Baldassare Galuppi" (in Italian). Cultura e Spettacolo Venezia. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
- ^ According to the original libretto, carlogoldoni.it, University of Padua
- ^ Steiger, Karsten (2008). Opern-Diskographie: Verzeichnis aller Audio- und Video-Gesamtaufnahmen. Munich: Saur Verlag. p. 155. ISBN 978-3-598-11784-8. (in German)
- ^ 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. Vol. 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)
External links
[edit]- "Libretto for a 1751 performance in Florence" (in Italian). Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica – Catalogo Gaspari. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
- Il mondo della luna (Galuppi): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
