Nonetheless, it’s an omission that Chris’s Cache rectifies at the moment with a double-bill of I Quatro Rusteghi that includes American sopranos Barbara Bonney, Cheryl Studer, and Nancy Shade, plus Graziella Sciutti because the nicotine-addicted heroine of Il Segreto di Susanna.

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari break up his profession between Italy and Germany which explains why Rustighi premiered in Munich as Die Vier Grobiane, the model we hear at the moment. Though he could also be greatest remembered for his comedies, many would possibly know him as a substitute for his severe opera I Gioielli della Madonna which premiered in Berlin as Der Schmuck der Madonna (oh pricey!); its beguiling Intermezzo has been fashionable for many years.

Extra not too long ago Sly, his Shakespeare opera, served as a automobile first for Placido Domingo after which José Carreras. However the one-act Segreto stays his most identifiable opera; it has been recorded a number of instances and will get carried out with some regularity.

Earlier than Sly arrived in 2002, Wolf-Ferrari’s work hadn’t been heard on the Met since 1927, the ultimate efficiency so far of Gioielli which had been mounted two years earlier with Maria Jeritza and Giovanni Martinelli. The Met had beforehand carried out Le Donna Curiose and L’Amore Medico, the latter performed by Arturo Toscanini. It’s amusing to survey the various operas the Met mixed with Segreto: typically Pagliacci or a long-forgotten The Polish Jew, however typically a whole La Bohème or L’Amore dei Tre Re. Philadelphia audiences obtained their cash’s price one evening in 1921 when the Met introduced Lucrezia Bori in Segreto together with Cavalleria Rusticana with Beniamino Gigli and L’Oracolo starring Antonio Scotti, in fact!

Whereas others have been tackling verismo or absorbing Wagner into their operas, it might appear odd that an early 20^th century composer was so drawn to Carlo Goldoni, an 18^th century playwright. Wolf-Ferrari tailored quite a few Goldini performs: moreover Rustighi, there are Le donne curiose, Le Vedova Scaltra, Il Campiello, and Gli Amanti sposi.

The final of those encompasses a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano who additionally wrote Sly’s. Finest recognized for his texts for Puccini’sSuor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, Forzano additionally wrote libretti for Mascagni, Leoncavallo, and Giordano.

Goldoni’s performs aren’t a lot achieved is the US though I noticed Il servitore di due padroni practically 20 years in the past when Piccolo Teatro di Milano introduced Giorgio Strehler’s well-known model to Lincoln Middle. Unexpectedly, I additionally noticed La bottega del caffé in French on the Comédie-Française (the place it was known as merely Le Café) throughout my first go to to Paris after we have been on the lookout for one thing to do on Christmas Day.

Goldoni additionally wrote quite a few opera libretti together with a number of for Galuppi together with Il Mondo della Luna which was later set by Haydn who additionally composed Lo Speziale and I Pescatrici to Goldoni libretti. The playwright was additionally answerable for adapting Richardson’s novel Pamela for Piccinni’s scrumptious La Cecchina ovvero La Buona Figliuola.

Wolf-Ferrari: Die Vier Grobiane (composer’s German-language model of I Quatro Rusteghi)

Lucieta: Barbara Bonney
Margarita: Cornelia Wulkopf
Marina: Cheryl Studer
Felice: Nancy Shade
Magd: Helena Jungwirth
Lunardo: Artur Korn
Maurizio: Bodo Brinkmann
Filipeto: Yoshihisa Yamaji
Simon” Hans-Günter Nöcker
Cancian: Karl Christian Kohn
Conte Riccardo: Christer Bladin

Conductor: Alberto Zedda
Bayerische Staatsoper
18 April 1982
Broadcast

Wolf-Ferrari: Il Segreto di Susanna

Susanna: Graziella Sciutti
Gil: Renato Césari
Sante: Italo Pasini

Conductor: Juan Emilio Martini
Teatro Colón
August 1968
Broadcast

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