Niccolò Jommelli

Niccolò Jommelli – Jommelli: La Critica (2023)
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The impression aroused by the teatro alla moda(Venice 1720) by Benedetto Marcello, the satirical volume that ridiculed the oddities and excesses of the world of opera of those years (from virtuous singers with their mothers, to impresari, from librettists to composers, gradually up to extras and suggestors), found echo in subsequent theoretical works on the subject (we remember those of Algarotti and Muratori) and in the vast production of libretti for intermezzi and opere buffe, which flourished especially in Venice, thanks also to the contribution of Carlo Goldoni (La cantatrice1730,La cantarina1756,La bella veritie1762) and Pietro Chiari (L’amore in musica1760). Putting the characters, the situations and the ampulloousness of the expressive language of the opera seria, it denounced its own incongruity and it was intended to hit the complexity, sometimes redundant, of its mechanisms. This particular strand of comic theater spread, especially in the second half of the eighteenth century, also in various European courts open to the influence of opera italiana.La critica was composed in Stuttgart for Duke Carl Eugen ofr In 1768 he reworked two intermezzi on Martinelli’s libretti, L’accademia di musicaeLa conversazione (Il giuoco del picket), represented in Salvaterra, Spain, in the carnival of 1775. The interlocutors were divided between the two interludes: Siface, Lesbia and Acamante (here soprano) for the first; Placido, Severino and Gioconda (here soprano) for the secondo.Il picket game, first performed under this title in Koblenz in 1772, differs fromconversationonly by some variations in recitatives.

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