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Pigmaliòn en Sicilia
2010
By the end of 18th century three performances of “Pygmalion” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau are attested in Sicily, in Palermo (1777, 1797) and in Catania (1791), but every of them gives problems for their confirmation in coeval documents or for some other peculiarity. The most interesting is certainly the Catania's one attested by the libretto printed for the circumstance. There “Pygmalion” was performed in the original form of melodrama, but translated in Italian. The composer indicated on the libretto is Ch. W. Gluck but we can suppose that Gluck's work utilised in Catania, without informing the author, had been written for different purpose and intention. Somebody perhaps organised that perfo…
The Italian reception of Benda’s «Ariadne auf Naxos» and «Medea»: fascination and compromise
2016
The monodramas “Ariadne auf Naxos” and “Medea” by the Czech composer Jiří Antonín Benda had an interesting and little known circulation in Italy, where they were translated, performed and adapted to local taste. Both the works were performed in Naples, in 1783 and in 1790 respectively, thanks to Norbert Hadrava, an officer in the Austrian army with a great passion for German music. The article demonstrates that Hadrava presented the two pièces on the stage of Teatro de’ Fiorentini with the original music by Benda, obtaining a large success. A manuscript score of “Medea” now in the library of the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in Naples is examined, as it is likely connected to the Neapo…
"Pigmalione" in Sicilia
2011
Three productions based on Rousseau’s Pygmalion were documented in Sicily around the end of the eighteenth century in the city of Palermo (1776, 1797) and Catania (1791) by different sources. The aim of this essay is to study them in more detail to contribute, albeit marginally, to the knowledge of theatre and cultural activities in eighteenth-century Sicily and of the diffusion of the melodrama, invented for theatre by Rousseau.
Tentare il teatro: “Le devin du village” e “Pygmalion”
2004
L'idea di teatro di Jean-Jacques Rousseau rivisitata alla luce delle sue prove come autore di opere musicali.