Lo sposo deluso

Lo sposo deluso, bone the rivalità di tre gives per a solo amante ( the disappointed Husband, or competition of three women for only one lover ) is a Opera buffa in two acts, K. 430, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart between 1783 and 1784. The opera was never finished and only a 20 minute old fragment of act I exists.

History of work

Mozart had with the departure envisaged to make play the opera by seven members of the Italian troop in Vienna. Although it was initially thought that Lorenzo da Ponte could be the author of the booklet, scholarship by Alessandra Campana showed that the booklet was written by an unknown Italian poet, and that a previous model had been used by Domenico Cimarosa for It due rivali , that it composed for the season of the carnival of Rome of 1780. For Lo sposo deluso , Mozart added two characters to those of It due rivali , famous the five originals, and envisaged the distribution of the singers for which it would write. The reasons of the abandonment of work are not clear, though Neal Zaslaw proposed that it is the sum of the difficulties presented by the rewriting and the adaptation of the booklet for the public Viennese and the fact that in 1785, Da Ponte had finally come with the booklet for the nozze di Figaro .

In 2006, the 250-ième birthday of the birth of Mozart, the fragment of Lo sposo deluso was played several times, in particular:

Bampton Classical Operated 'S The Jewel Box , a program conceived by Paul Griffiths using the pieces existing of Lo sposo deluso and the oca del Cairo as well as arias written by Mozart to be inserted in operas of Anfossi, Piccini and Cimarosa. (The program was an imagined reconstitution of a mime of 1783 in which Mozart and Aloysia Weber would have played.)

production of the Festival of Salzburg of Lo sposo deluso and the oca del Cairo , and other airs written by Mozart in a program entitled Rex tremendus , conceived and put in scene by Joachim Schlöme with Camerata Academica of Salzburg directed by Michael Hofstetter. (This representation was recorded on DVD, Voir Enregistrements)

Roles

The opera never was finished nor created. The names of the singers given in the table below are those for which Mozart wrote the roles and which were to sing during creation.

The action proceeds in a villa at the seaside close to Leghorn.

Written pieces of the opera

1. Opening - allegro-andante

2. Quartetto - “Ah, ah che ridere”: Pulcherio (tenor), Papparelli (low), BETTINA (soprano), Gift Asdrubale (tenor)

3. Aria - “Nacqui ale aria trionfale” (fragment): Eugenia (soprano)

4. Aria - “Dove May trovar which ciglio?” (fragment): Pulcherio (tenor)

5. Terzetto - “Che accidenti”: Papparelli (low), Gift Asdrubale (tenor), Eugenia (soprano)

Recordings

Rex Tremendus ( Lo Sposo Deluso , Oca del Cairo and other pieces of Mozart) with Ann Murray, Marianne Hamre, Graham Smith, Josef Wagner, Marisa Martins, Jeremy Ovenden, Matthias Klink, Silvia Me, Miljenko Turk, Malignant Hartelius and Camerata Academica of Salzburg directed by Michael Hofstetter. DVD recorded with the Festival of Salzburg 2006 (Deutsche Grammophon 0734250)

the oca del Cairo / Lo Sposo Deluso , 1991, Volume 39 of The Supplements Mozart Edition (Philips 028942253926)

References

Bibliography

Bertrand Demoncourt (to dir.), Dictionary Mozart , Robert Laffont, coll Books, Paris, 2005 (ISBN 2-221-10437-4) ;
Jean and Brigitte Massin, Mozart , Beech, coll the Essential ones of the music, Paris, 1990;
Guide of the operas of Mozart, directed by Brigitte Massin, Beech, Paris, 1991.

External bonds

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