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Le cantatrici villane

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First performance
  
1799

Language
  
Italian

Composer
  
Valentino Fioravanti

Similar
  
Don Bucefalo, Le astuzie femminili, Crispino e la comare, Il trionfo dell'onore, Lo frate 'nnamorato

Le cantatrici villane (The Boorish Singers) is a comic opera (dramma giocoso) in two acts composed by Valentino Fioravanti to a libretto by Giuseppe Palomba. It was first performed in Naples in 1799. A revised one act version premiered at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice as Le virtuose ridicole in 1801.

Contents

An opera by Antonio Cagnoni based on the same libretto and entitled Don Bucefalo premiered in Milan in 1847.

Finale atto i le cantatrici villane by valentino fioravanti


Roles

  • Rosa, a peasant believed to be a widow (soprano)
  • Agata, a peasant (soprano)
  • Giannetta, a peasant (soprano)
  • Don Bucefalo, a timid and ignorant choirmaster (bass)
  • Don Marco, a well-to-do student of Don Bucefalo and in love with Rosa (bass)
  • Carlino, a young soldier who has disappeared in Spain and husband of Rosa (tenor)
  • Giansimone, a waiter in the local inn (tenor)

    • Synopsis

    The action takes place in 18th century Casoria, a village near Naples.

    Three country wenches (Agata,Giannetta and Rosa) have aspiration to become bel canto virtuose with the help of an ignorant choirmaster (Don Bucefalo) and another would be singer (Don Marco), but things get complicated with the unexpected return of bragging soldier and Rosa's jealous husband (Carlino).

    Discography

  • Le cantatrice villane – Alda Noni, Ester Orell, Fernanda Cadoni, Sesto Bruscantini, Franco Calabrese, Agostino Lazzari – Orchestra di Napoli, Mario Rossi – Cetra reissued by Warner-Fonit (1951)

    • References

    Le cantatrici villane Wikipedia
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