La fiera di Venezia

La fiera di Venezia (The fair in Venice) is a three-act opera buffa, described as a commedia per musica, by Antonio Salieri, set to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini (brother of the composer Luigi Boccherini).

La fiera di Venezia
Opera buffa by Antonio Salieri
Antonio Salieri, engraving by Carl Traugott Riedel, 1802
TranslationThe fair in Venice
LibrettistGiovanni Gastone Boccherini
LanguageItalian
Premiere
29 January 1772 (1772-01-29)
Burgtheater, Vienna

Performance history

The opera premiered with great success on 29 January 1772 at the Burgtheater in Vienna.[1][2] La fiera di Venezia turned out to be one of Salieri's best regarded works and during his lifetime was staged more than thirty times throughout Europe.[3] In 1773, Mozart wrote fortepiano variations to the aria "Mio caro adone". In the movie Amadeus, Mozart called the aria, “a funny little tune but it yielded some good things”.

Roles
Roles, voice types
Role Voice type
Falsirena soprano
Calloandra soprano
Cristallina soprano
Ostrogoto tenor
Rasoio tenor
Cecchino tenor
Grifagno bass
Belfusto bass

Recordings
  • Complete recording – Falsirena: Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, Grifagno: Furio Zanasi,; Calloandra: Dilyara Idrisova, Ostrogoto: Krystian Adam, Cristallina: Natalia Rubiś, Rasojo: Emanuele D'Aguanno, Belfusto: Giorgio Caoduro; choir and Orchestra l'arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt DHM 2CD 2019

References
  1. Casaglia, Gherardo (2005)."La fiera di Venezia, 29 January 1772". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
  2. Music and History.com page Archived 2007-10-09 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "The Mozart–Salieri Connection" Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine by Volkmar Braunbehrens
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