Search results for "Domenico Cimarosa"
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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…
Intertestualità e parodia nella commedia per musica napoletana: il caso dell’"Armida immaginaria" di Giuseppe Palomba e Domenico Cimarosa (1777)
2021
"Armida immaginaria" by Palomba and Cimarosa is tangled in a thick network of intertextual connections. Many are its references, partly known, to Tasso’s Gerusalemme. In addition, scene I.10 turns out to be an effective literary and musical parody of scene II.10 of "Armida abbandonata" by De Rogati and Jommelli. That imitation is the outcome of a strategy shared between the librettist, the composer and the singer (the buffo Antonio Casaccia) and implies the deliberate connivance of the audience, whose reactions may be partly retraced by comparison with similar episodes.