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Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte
- But only three works with that designation are performed regularly today: Rossini’s La Cenerentola, and Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte. And for both of Mozart’s operas, the composer classified them simply as “opera buffa” instead of “dramma giocoso.”
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 's operas comprise 22 musical dramas in a variety of genres. [a] They range from the small-scale, derivative works of his youth to the full-fledged operas of his maturity. Three of the works were abandoned before completion and were not performed until many years after the composer's death.
Burgtheater, Vienna. The Marriage of Figaro (Italian: Le nozze di Figaro, pronounced [le ˈnɔttse di ˈfiːɡaro] ⓘ ), K. 492, is a commedia per musica ( opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 May 1786.
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- 1 May 1786, Burgtheater, Vienna
The type of comedy could vary, and the range was great: from Rossini's The Barber of Seville in 1816 which was purely comedic, to Mozart 's The Marriage of Figaro in 1786 which added drama and pathos. Another example of Romantic opera buffa would be Donizetti's The Elixir of Love of 1832.
Mozart’s Idomeneo at the Met. By Peter Clark. Mozart’s most famous operas are written in the comic or semi-comic genres known as opera buffa, dramma giocoso, and Singspiel, and were composed in the last five years of his life.
In this richly detailed book, Mary Hunter offers a sweeping, synthetic view of opera buffa in the lively theatrical world of late-eighteenth-century Vienna. Opera buffa (Italian-language comic opera) persistently entertained audiences at a time when Joseph was striving for a German national theater.
