Search results for " Giovanni Paisiello"
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La stagione operistica 1781-1782 al Teatro dei Fiorentini di Napoli: meccanismi gestionali e occasioni creative
2017
The finding of a rich series of documents in the Archivio Storico of the Istituto Banco di Napoli – Fondazione (Naples) allows to offer a detailed reconstruction of the 1781-1782 season at the Neapolitan Teatro dei Fiorentini, devoted to "commedia per musica". The payments, transcribed in the appendix, show the specific financial structure of the theatre, as well as the distribution of roles and responsibilities among the different figures involved in the operatic business. Archival evidence and information taken from other sources (such as newspapers and letters of contemporary observers) make possible to highlight the Neapolitan debut of the famous Tuscan soprano Celeste Coltellini, desti…
"Largo al factotum!": genesi e fortuna del "Barbiere" di Rossini
2011
Il saggio ripercorre la genesi del "Barbiere di Siviglia" di Gioachino Rossini, soffermandosi sui problemi connessi alla determinazione dei ruoli vocali e della compagnia di canto, nonché alla genesi e alla prima rappresentazione dell'opera (Roma, Teatro Argentina, 20 febbraio 1816).
Il terzo atto al San Carlo di Napoli nell’ultimo trentennio del Settecento: declino, atrofizzazione, scomparsa
2023
In the last decades of the eighteenth century, the third act of opera seria was gradually reduced in importance and dimensions until it disappeared altogether. The article studies this process in relation to the repertoire of the San Carlo theatre in Naples from 1771 on, with special attention to the intertwining of dramaturgical choices and audience’s behavior. The examination of a large number of librettos and scores makes it possible to fix reliable chronological terms. After an isolated episode in 1780, the adfirmation of the two-act model can be traced back to the 1786-1787 season. The new formula quickly took hold, but three-act operas continued to be performed - with ever decreasing …
Opera, ball and spoken theatre at the royal palace of Caserta
2021
The royal palace of Caserta was built at the behest of Charles of Bourbon but completed under his son, Ferdinand IV. During the second half of the Eigheteenth Century, it hosted many different musical activities; succesfull serious and comic operas already performed in the theatres of Naples as well as vocal and instrumental concerts were offered there to a selected audience. Tragedies, “all’immprovviso” comedies and balls were also frequently enjoyed by the members of the royal family. In the small center of San Leucio, 4 kilometres far from Caserta, Paisiello’s “Nina o sia La pazza per amore” was premiered in 1789.
Felicità (e infelicità) sulle scene musicali tardosettecentesche: «La clemenza di Tito» di Mozart e «Nina o sia La pazza per amore» di Paisiello
2012
Nelle pagine che seguono rinuncerò a seguire le sorti della felicità-parola, che si prolungano senza soluzione di continuità fino alla moderna musica di consumo, e mi limiterò a qualche osservazione sulla felicità-concetto attraverso l’esame – necessariamente sommario – di una coppia di opere della fine del XVIII secolo, selezionate tra le tante meritevoli d’attenzione: La clemenza di Tito di Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791) e Nina o sia La pazza per amore di Giovanni Paisiello (1789-1790).