Librettist Carlo Goldoni | Composer Baldassare Galuppi | |
Similar Il filosofo di campagna, Lo speziale, La finta semplice, La buona figliuola | ||
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.
The music has been described as "clear, with expressivity obtained through melodic and textural changes." 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.
The opera by Galuppi is the first based on Goldoni's libretto. The same libretto was later also set by at least seven other composers: Florian Leopold Gassmann (1761), Niccolò Piccinni (1762), Pietro Antonio Avondano (1765), Giovanni Paisiello (1774, 1777, 1783, 1792), Gennaro Astarita (1774), Franz Joseph Haydn (1777), Michele Neri Bondi (1790, libretto revised by Domenico Somigli), and Marcos António Portugal (1791). 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).
Synopsis
See synopsis in Haydn's Il mondo della luna.