Le donne curiose
Le donne curiose (English: The Inquisitive Women) is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to a text by Luigi Sugana after Carlo Goldoni's play of the same name.
Le donne curiose | |
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Opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari | |
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Translation | The Inquisitive Women |
Librettist | Luigi Sugana |
Language | Italian |
Based on | Le donne curiose by Carlo Goldoni |
Premiere |
Performance history
The first dramatic work by Wolf-Ferrari to achieve more than local notice, it was first performed in Munich on 27 November 1903 in a German translation as Die neugierigen Frauen. The first performance in Italian was at the old Metropolitan Opera House in New York on 3 January 1912 with a cast led by Arturo Toscanini, including Geraldine Farrar and Hermann Jadlowker. Tullio Serafin conducted the first performance in Milan on 16 January 1913.
Roles
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Geraldine Farrar and Hermann Jadlowker as Rosaura and Florindo
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Scene from act 3
Role | Voice type | Premiere cast, 27 November 1903[1] Conductor: Hugo Reichenberger |
First performance in Italian, 3 January 1912[2] Conductor: Arturo Toscanini |
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Arlecchino | bass | Georg Sieglitz | Antonio Scotti |
Beatrice | mezzo-soprano | Charlotte Huhn | Rita Fornia |
Colombina | soprano | Hermine Bosetti | Geraldine Farrar |
Florindo | tenor | Hans Koppe | Hermann Jadlowker |
Leandro | tenor | Hans Breuer | Jeanne Maubourg |
Lelio | baritone | Andres de Segurola | |
Ottavio | bass | Paul Bender | Adam Didur |
Pantalone | baritone | Friedrich Brodersen | Antonio Pini-Corsi |
Rosaura | soprano | Ella Tordek | Bella Alten |
Lunardo | bass | ||
Mènego | bass | ||
Mómolo | bass | ||
Eleonora | soprano | ||
Asdrubale | tenor | ||
Almorò | tenor | ||
Alvise | tenor | ||
First gondolier | tenor | ||
Second gondolier | bass | ||
Synopsis
The story is a comedy set in 18th-century Venice about two wives checking up on the goings-on at their husband's club.
Notes
- Casaglia, Gherardo (2005)."Le donne curiose, 27 November 1903". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian). (gives Hugo Josef Rheinberger as conductor)
- Casaglia, Gherardo (2005)."Le donne curiose, 3 January 1912". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
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References
- Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992), The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5
- Lewis M. Isaacs (1920). Encyclopedia Americana. . In Rines, George Edwin (ed.).
External links
Media related to Le donne curiose at Wikimedia Commons- Le donne curiose (Wolf-Ferrari): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Work details, opera-guide.ch
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