| Il mondo della luna | |
|---|---|
| Opera by Baldassare Galuppi | |
&sq=Qlik&lang=&file=File:Il_mondo_della_luna_(Goldoni),_1794.jpg) Illustration from the 1794 publication of Goldoni's libretto | |
| Librettist | Carlo Goldoni |
| Language | Italian |
| Premiere | 29 January 1750 Teatro San Moisè, Venice |
Il mondo della luna (The World of the Moon) is an opera (dramma giocoso) in 3 acts by Baldassare Galuppi. The Italian-language libretto was by Carlo Goldoni. It premiered on 29 January 1750 at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice.[1]
The music has been described as "clear, with expressivity obtained through melodic and textural changes."[2] Galuppi's music exploits "the capacity of the music to illustrate and portray the text," with special attention for Buonafede, credulous old man who is the central character of the plot.[3]
The opera by Galuppi is the first based on Goldoni's libretto. The same libretto was later also set by several other composers, such as Pedro António Avondano (1765), Giovanni Paisiello (1774 under the title Il credulo deluso, 1783), Gennaro Astarita (1774), Joseph Haydn (1777), Michele Neri Bondi (1790, libretto revised by Domenico Somigli), and Marcos Portugal (1791, in Portuguese, under the title O lunático iludido).[4][5] Paisiello composed four different versions of operas based on this libretto (one of them, 1783, was a reduction in two acts by Marco Coltellini; another, 1774, was performed as Il credulo deluso).[3][6]
- ^ "Il *mondo della luna" (in Italian). Corago – Università di Bologna. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ^ Monson 1997.
- ^ a b Mellace 2007
- ^ "Relazioni opera Il *mondo della luna" (in Italian). Corago – Università di Bologna. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
- ^ Pierpaolo Polzonetti, Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. p. 30.
- ^ "Il Mondo della Luna di Baldassare Galuppi" (in Italian). Cultura e Spettacolo Venezia. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 March 2015.