L'amore delle tre melarance

L'amore delle tre melarance is a 1761 play by Carlo Gozzi for the Teatro San Samuele, Venice.^[1] The play is best known today as the base for Prokofiev's opera The Love for Three Oranges (L'amour des trois oranges).

L'amore delle tre melarance is based on the Mediterranean (Italian) fairytale The Love for Three Oranges, written by Giambattista Basile in his Pentamerone.

^ Erika Fischer-Lichte History of European Drama and Theatre 2002 p145 0415180597 "As counter-programme to Goldoni's theatre reforms, Gozzi wrote various fantasy spectacles, L'Amore delle tre Melarance ... 1761 and 1765 for the company of Truffaldino, Antonio Sacchi, at the Teatro San Samuele, with extraordinary success."

[1] Erika Fischer-Lichte History of European Drama and Theatre 2002 p145 0415180597 "As counter-programme to Goldoni's theatre reforms, Gozzi wrote various fantasy spectacles, L'Amore delle tre Melarance ... 1761 and 1765 for the company of Truffaldino, Antonio Sacchi, at the Teatro San Samuele, with extraordinary success."

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