First performance 9 December 1789 Librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte | Composer Antonio Salieri Language Italian | |
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Similar Palmira - regina di Persia, Armida, Axur - re d'Ormus, Il pastor fido, Der Rauchfangkehrer | ||
Cecilia bartoli sings alfin son sola from antonio salieri s la cifra
La cifra is an opera by Antonio Salieri in two acts, set to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
Contents
- Cecilia bartoli sings alfin son sola from antonio salieri s la cifra
- Salieri bartoli alfin son sola la cifra act 2
- Performance history
- Brief Synopsis
- Recordings
- References
The work, a dramma giocoso, is set in Scotland, and was written for Adriana Ferrarese del Bene, the first Fiordiligi in Mozart's Così fan tutte.
Salieri bartoli alfin son sola la cifra act 2
Performance history
The opera was first performed in Vienna on December 9, 1789. This was followed by a production in Dresden on October 13, 1790. It went on to receive several productions both in Germany and Austria between 1789 and 1805.
La cifra received a recent performance in Cologne in June 2006, in a production conducted by Martin Haselböck and directed by Christian Stückl.
Brief Synopsis
Fideling, a Scottish lord, is seeking a lost noblewoman with whom he had fallen in love. Lisotta, the daughter of the town's mayor is betrothed to Sandrino, but is in love with Fideling and believes herself to be the woman he is searching for. Eurilla also loves Fideling but despairs because she is a mere shepherdess. In Act II, before her true identity is revealed, she sings 'Alfin son sola … Sola e mesta' (In the end I am alone... Alone and sad). It finally emerges that Eurilla is in fact the daughter of a nobleman. She and Fideling are reunited and all ends happily in the finale.
Recordings
There is no known studio recording of the complete opera, However, The Salieri Album, (Cecilia Bartoli with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by Ádám Fischer, Decca 475 100-2) has two excerpts: