Word: goldoni
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secret is a masterpiece of its genre, which looks back to the charming 18th-century tradition of Goldoni and opera buffa. Although it is Wolf-Ferrari's most famous work, usually only the overture is done; so it is a welcome treat to have the whole work in a generally bright performance...
Bayville, L.I., North Shore Playhouse: Lady Gregory's translation of Mirando-lina, by Carlo Goldoni...
...libretto, by Italy's Carlo Goldoni, is a typical 18th century spoof of intriguing lovers and amateur scientists, involving a fat and foolish old father who will not let his two daughters marry suitors he disapproves of. When the old man peers through a telescope at the moon and thinks he spots a bevy of handsomely configured nymphs cavorting about in the near nude, one of his prospective sons-in-law feeds him a magic elixir that, he is told, will transport him to the wonderful moon world. Convinced, when he comes to, that he really...
...Finta Semplice (Dorothea Siedberg, Edith Oravez. George Maran, August Jaresch, Alois Pernerstorfer: the Camerata Academica of the Salzburg Mozarteum conducted by Bernhard Paumgartner; Epic, 2 LPs). Mozart's first opera here gets a busy but clear-lined first complete performance on records. Child Prodigy Mozart handled Carlo Goldoni's boisterous love plot like a man who has been there before-a breathtaking performance by a twelve-year...
Wolf-Ferrari based his Ruffians on a farce by 18th Century Carlo Goldoni: two prosperous Venetian merchants arrange a marriage of convenience for their children, and, being unromantic old curmudgeons, vow that the young couple shall not be allowed to meet until they reach the altar. Their wives, being romantic busybodies, vow that the youngsters shall meet anyhow, and thereby thinly hangs the opera...