L'impresario delle Isole Canarie (The impresario from the Canary Islands), also known as L'impresario delle Canarie or Dorina e Nibbio, is a satirical opera intermezzo libretto attributed to Metastasio (Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi), written in 1724 to be performed between the acts of Metastasio's opera seria Didone abbandonata. The first performance of the work was on February 1, 1724, in Naples, Italy, at Teatro San Bartolomeo. The first composer to set this libretto to music was Domenico Sarro, also known by the name Sarri, who also revised the work in 1730.[1] The role of Dorina was first sung by the contralto Santa Marchesini, and Nibbio by the basso buffo singer Gioacchino Corrado.[2][3] Later versions of this libretto appear with the titles L'impresario, L'impresario e la cantante and others.
- ^ Don Neville, Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "Impresario delle Canarie, L'" (The Impresario from the Canary Islands).
- ^ C. E. Troy, The Comic Intermezzo: a Study in the History of Eighteenth-Century Italian Opera, (Ann Arbor, 1979) ISBN 0835709922
- ^ Stefano Capone, L'opera comica Napoletana, Liguori editore, 2007, ISBN 9788820740566