La scuola de’ gelosi
Presentation
Performed for the first time at the Teatro San Moisé in Venice in 1778, this comic opera became an immediate success and quickly spread throughout Europe. Caterino Mazzolà’s libretto was amended in 1783 by Lorenzo Da Ponte for a second version which was performed at the Burgtheatre in Vienna. As well as the traditional and entertaining amorous skirmishes between the characters which was typical of playful melodrama, the story is interesting as it involves figures of various social extract – aristocrats, the upper-classes and servants, a forbearer of situations which are to be found in the Mozart-Da Ponte trilogy.
La scuola de’ gelosi
A playful drama in two acts
Libretto by Caterino Mazzolà
Music by Antonio Salieri
A new staging in co-production with the Teatro Pergolesi of Jesi, the Teatro Salieri of Legnago and the Teatro Marrucino of Chieti
In collaboration with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Academy
Artists
Conductor
Giovanni Battista Rigon
Director
Italo Nunziata
Scenes
Andrea Belli
Costumes
Valeria Donata Bettella
Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Conte Bandiera
Patrick Kabongo Mubenga
Contessa
Bandiera Francesca Longari
Blasio
Benjamin Cho
Ernestina
Eleonora Bellocci
Lumaca
Qianming Dou
Carlotta
Ana Victoria Pitts
Il Tenente
Manuel Amati