Armida
Based on Tasso’s epic poem, Salieri’s opera centers on the relationship between the sorceress Armida and the Crusader Rinaldo.
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Based on Tasso’s epic poem, Salieri’s opera centers on the relationship between the sorceress Armida and the Crusader Rinaldo.
King Axur abducts Aspasia, wife of his commander Atar, but Atar learns the truth and disguises himself to reach her in the harem. After Axur sentences him to death, the people demand Atar’s release so he can defend the kingdom. Axur sees that he has lost their support, abdicates and commits suicide; Atar is proclaimed king.
Chimney sweep Volpino and cook Lisel scheme to obtain a dowry from their wealthy social betters. Volpino charms Frau von Habicht and her stepdaughter with music, then persuades the noblemen pursuing them to pay him to undo the women’s infatuation.
At the rural wedding of Gamace and Chitteria in seventeenth-century Spain, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza arrive and become involved in the dances and verbal intrigues as the feast is prepared. The one-act work combines comic opera with ballet.
In ancient Tyre, Europa is abducted by Asterio of Crete and presumed lost. When the pair are captured after a shipwreck, Europa reveals her identity and claim to the throne, defeating Egisto’s bid for power; she then cedes the crown and marries her former fiancé Isséo and Semele.
A two-act Italian dramma giocoso adapting Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. The opera compresses the play, omits the young lovers Fenton and Anne, and adds scenes in which Mistress Ford pretends to be German to charm Falstaff; a fuller plot is not given.
This two-act comic opera follows intrigues among a jealous, quarrelling aristocratic couple and their servants.
A three-act Italian dramma giocoso by Antonio Salieri, with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte after an earlier work by Giovanni Bertati.
Scottish lord Fideling searches for a lost noblewoman he once loved. Mayor’s daughter Lisotta is betrothed to Sandrino but believes she is the woman he seeks, while shepherdess Eurilla loves Fideling; Eurilla’s noble birth is revealed, and she and Fideling reunite.
A three-act Italian opera buffa, or commedia per musica, by Antonio Salieri with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini.
Two sisters love two friends with contrasting temperaments. The magician Trofonio invites the pairs into his cave, where he reverses their personalities, first the men’s and then the women’s; the confusion is eventually resolved happily.
A two-act comic opera of love intrigues, attempted seductions, and jealousy among aristocratic, bourgeois, and working-class characters.
In 14th-century Modena, Renoppia receives a bucket taken from Bologna as a trophy from her lover Manfredi. Bologna’s ambassadors demand the bucket and Renoppia and Countess Ghereda as brides; Modena’s council rejects the offer and declares war. Later, Lorenzo and Antibo negotiate, with Bologna demanding either the bucket or Renoppia. During a banquet, the guests fear a bowl of soup is poisoned, then rush out to defend the city when Bologna attacks. The conflict ends in duels: Manfredi wins, while the Count feigns an injury and flees. The opera closes with the characters proclaiming the bucket’s seizure more historically famous than other legendary abductions.
An Italian comic opera based on Molière’s play Les Femmes Savantes.
Danaus orders his daughters to kill their new husbands, the sons of Aegyptus. Hypermnestra alone refuses, helps her husband Lynceus escape, and survives as he destroys the Danaïdes and their father; Danaus is condemned to eternal torment in Hades.
A French tragédie lyrique by Antonio Salieri, with a text by Nicolas-François Guillard after Corneille’s play Horace.
In an Alpine village, Despina loves the shepherd Despino, while her cousin Guidalba also desires him and longs for city life. Guidalba schemes to separate them, but Despino and Despina ultimately reunite and plan to marry in the countryside.
In ancient Persia, three kings arrive on different mounts and compete to kill a monster and win the hand of Princess Palmira.
A composer has completed music for a new opera, but its poet cannot finish the words. Their work is disrupted by a prima donna and a comic singer competing for the opening aria; the composer and poet resolve the quarrel by combining seria and buffa styles.
A five-act tragédie lyrique preceded by a prologue.
An English-language comic pasticcio opera set during the Siege of Belgrade, with Turkish forces, an Austrian commander and Serbian villagers among its characters. Its plot is not summarized here.
Based on Tasso’s epic poem, Salieri’s opera centers on the relationship between the sorceress Armida and the Crusader Rinaldo.
King Axur abducts Aspasia, wife of his commander Atar, but Atar learns the truth and disguises himself to reach her in the harem. After Axur sentences him to death, the people demand Atar’s release so he can defend the kingdom. Axur sees that he has lost their support, abdicates and commits suicide; Atar is proclaimed king.
Chimney sweep Volpino and cook Lisel scheme to obtain a dowry from their wealthy social betters. Volpino charms Frau von Habicht and her stepdaughter with music, then persuades the noblemen pursuing them to pay him to undo the women’s infatuation.
At the rural wedding of Gamace and Chitteria in seventeenth-century Spain, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza arrive and become involved in the dances and verbal intrigues as the feast is prepared. The one-act work combines comic opera with ballet.
In ancient Tyre, Europa is abducted by Asterio of Crete and presumed lost. When the pair are captured after a shipwreck, Europa reveals her identity and claim to the throne, defeating Egisto’s bid for power; she then cedes the crown and marries her former fiancé Isséo and Semele.
A two-act Italian dramma giocoso adapting Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. The opera compresses the play, omits the young lovers Fenton and Anne, and adds scenes in which Mistress Ford pretends to be German to charm Falstaff; a fuller plot is not given.
This two-act comic opera follows intrigues among a jealous, quarrelling aristocratic couple and their servants.
A three-act Italian dramma giocoso by Antonio Salieri, with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte after an earlier work by Giovanni Bertati.
Scottish lord Fideling searches for a lost noblewoman he once loved. Mayor’s daughter Lisotta is betrothed to Sandrino but believes she is the woman he seeks, while shepherdess Eurilla loves Fideling; Eurilla’s noble birth is revealed, and she and Fideling reunite.
A three-act Italian opera buffa, or commedia per musica, by Antonio Salieri with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini.
Two sisters love two friends with contrasting temperaments. The magician Trofonio invites the pairs into his cave, where he reverses their personalities, first the men’s and then the women’s; the confusion is eventually resolved happily.
A two-act comic opera of love intrigues, attempted seductions, and jealousy among aristocratic, bourgeois, and working-class characters.
In 14th-century Modena, Renoppia receives a bucket taken from Bologna as a trophy from her lover Manfredi. Bologna’s ambassadors demand the bucket and Renoppia and Countess Ghereda as brides; Modena’s council rejects the offer and declares war. Later, Lorenzo and Antibo negotiate, with Bologna demanding either the bucket or Renoppia. During a banquet, the guests fear a bowl of soup is poisoned, then rush out to defend the city when Bologna attacks. The conflict ends in duels: Manfredi wins, while the Count feigns an injury and flees. The opera closes with the characters proclaiming the bucket’s seizure more historically famous than other legendary abductions.
An Italian comic opera based on Molière’s play Les Femmes Savantes.
Danaus orders his daughters to kill their new husbands, the sons of Aegyptus. Hypermnestra alone refuses, helps her husband Lynceus escape, and survives as he destroys the Danaïdes and their father; Danaus is condemned to eternal torment in Hades.
A French tragédie lyrique by Antonio Salieri, with a text by Nicolas-François Guillard after Corneille’s play Horace.
In an Alpine village, Despina loves the shepherd Despino, while her cousin Guidalba also desires him and longs for city life. Guidalba schemes to separate them, but Despino and Despina ultimately reunite and plan to marry in the countryside.
In ancient Persia, three kings arrive on different mounts and compete to kill a monster and win the hand of Princess Palmira.
A composer has completed music for a new opera, but its poet cannot finish the words. Their work is disrupted by a prima donna and a comic singer competing for the opening aria; the composer and poet resolve the quarrel by combining seria and buffa styles.
A five-act tragédie lyrique preceded by a prologue.
An English-language comic pasticcio opera set during the Siege of Belgrade, with Turkish forces, an Austrian commander and Serbian villagers among its characters. Its plot is not summarized here.