Giannina e Bernardone

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Giannina e Bernardone
Dramma giocoso by Domenico Cimarosa
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The composer
Librettist Filippo Livigni
LanguageItalian
Premiere1781 (1781)
Teatro San Samuele, Venice

Giannina e Bernardone is a dramma giocoso in two acts by composer Domenico Cimarosa with an Italian libretto by Filippo Livigni. The opera premiered in the autumn of 1781 at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice. A portion of the work was performed again in 1786 in Venice in the form of an intermezzo entitled Il villano geloso.

Dramma giocoso is a genre of opera common in the mid-18th century. The term is a contraction of dramma giocoso per musica and describes the opera's libretto (text). The genre developed in the Neapolitan opera tradition, mainly through the work of the playwright Carlo Goldoni in Venice. A dramma giocoso characteristically used a grand buffo scene as a dramatic climax at the end of an act. Goldoni's texts always consisted of two long acts with extended finales, followed by a short third act. Composers Baldassare Galuppi, Niccolò Piccinni, and Joseph Haydn set Goldoni's texts to music.

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Roles

RoleVoice typePremiere cast, Autumn 1781
(Conductor: - )
Giannina soprano
Masino tenor
Bernardone bass
Laurettasoprano
il capitano Franconetenor
Don Orlandobass
Donna Aurora mezzo-soprano
friends, servants, soldiers, the military band, neighbors

Recording

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