Piccinni: La serva onorata
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Shipping Policy- Composer: Niccolò Piccinni (1728-1800)
- Editor: Lawrence Mays
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Description
In September 1792 the Neapolitan Teatro dei Fiorentini hosted the performance of a new dramma giocoso by Niccolò Piccinni, titled La serva onorata, which has never been revived in modern times. The libretto was a reelaboration by Giambattista Lorenzi of Lorenzo Da Ponte's Le nozze di Figaro, set to music by Mozart six years before. The work and the Viennese masterpiece show many concurrences, but Lorenzi's text is marked by a different tone and a radical restructuring—a reduction from four to two acts and from eleven to six characters, as well as the elimination of the chorus. in it a mature Piccinni, just returned to Italy after the long stay in Paris, proves capable of writing a refined score and of showcasing the skills of his singers, among them the famous buffo Antonio Casaccia in the role of Nardillo Barracca, corresponding to that of Figaro.
Contents:
Part 1:
Sinfonia
Atto primo:
Scenes 1–9 (A room in the Count's palace)
- No. 1. Quartetto (Livietta, Conte, Barracca, Don Fazio): "Vedi un poco, mio sposino"
- No. 2. Aria (Don Fazio): "Che dite? Che vi pare?"
- No. 3. Duetto (Livietta, Barracca): "Si a caso maddamma"
- No. 4. Cavatina (Contessa): "Porgi, Amor, qualche ristoro"
- No. 5. Aria (Michelino): "Se un vago visetto"
- No. 6. Aria (Contessa): "Passami, ingrato, il core"
- No. 7. Quartetto (Livietta, Conte, Barracca, Don Fazio): "(Ah che veggio!) (Crude stelle!)"
Scenes 10–15 (A gallery with a balcony in the Count's palace)
- No. 8. Aria (Conte): "Quei mesti suoi sospiri"
- No. 9. Recitativo accompagnato—Aria (Barracca): "Ombre onorate—Ecco, crudel lotamma"
- No. 10. Aria (Livietta): "Narcisetto mio carino"
- No. 11. Finale (Livietta, Contessa, Michelino, Conte, Barracca, Don Fazio): "Aprite presto, aprite"
Part 2:
Atto secondo:
Scenes 1–9 (The Count's garden with the balcony of his palace)
- No. 12. Canzoncina (Michelino): "Voi che sapete"
- No. 13. Duetto (Livietta, Conte): "Crudel, perché finora"
- No. 14. Aria (Livietta): "Ah ceffaccio d'assassino"
- No. 15: Aria (Conte): "Vi sento, sì, vi sento"
- No. 16. Quintetto (Livietta, Conte, Contessa, Barracca, Don Fazio): "Uno schiaffo ad un par mio?"
Scenes 10–13 (A room in the Count's palace)
- No. 17. Duetto (Livietta, Contessa): "Che soave zeffiretto"
- No. 18. Aria (Contessa): "Dove sono i bei momenti"
- No. 19. Aria (Don Fazio): "In quegli anni in cui val poco"
- No. 20. Aria (Barracca): "Aprite, aprite l'uocchie"
Scene 14 (Garden)
- No. 21. Finale (Livietta, Contessa, Michelino, Conte, Barracca, Don Fazio): "Ombre care, amica notte"
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Piccinni: La serva onorata
