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"Operettizzare" Donizetti: il caso della "Figlia del reggimento"
On the basis of wide-ranging statistical surveys, recent pioneering studies on operetta in Italy of the second half of the 19th century have shown that the repertoire of the tour companies involved in the diffusion process of the genre built their repertoires drawing on two main sources: from one side, operettas imported from France performed in the original language or, more frequently, translated; on the other hand, new operettas composed in Italian by Italian composers (De Lucca, 2019; Oliva, 2020). Less known is the fact that sometimes they also appeared on the billboards of operetta companies titles of the Italian comic opera repertoire of the more or less recent past. This re-contextu…
Trapianti napoletani: "La figlia del reggimento" al Teatro Nuovo (1841)
The paper reflects on the linguistic, theatrical and musical characteristics of the version of Donizetti's "La figlia del reggimento" staged at the "Teatro Nuovo" in Naples in 1841.