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1707–93, Italian By profession a lawyer in Pisa, Carlo Goldoni became resident poet at several Venetian opera houses. There he devised and specialized in the opera buffa libretto and wrote over 100, using pseudonyms for some of them. Goldoni left Venice for Paris in 1762 and for some years became well known and much admired for his work ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

‘The Good-Natured Girl’ Composed: 1760 Premiered: 1760, Rome Libretto by Carlo Goldoni, after Samuel Richardson’s novel Pamela Act I Cecchina, a servant girl, is secretly in love with the Marchese della Conchiglia. Believing that her dream will never come true, she runs away when he confesses his own affections for her. He asks one of the ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

(Bal-das-sa’-ra Ga-loop’-pe) 1706–85 Italian composer Galuppi had great influence on the development of opera buffa. Most of his career was spent in his native Venice, apart from spells in London in the 1740s and St Petersburg in the 1760s. He was maestro di cappella at the famous St Mark’s basilica and worked at the girls’ orphanage-conservatories. His music is largely notable ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

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Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

there from 1754; he held posts at the cathedral and at court. In 1760 he enjoyed a spectacular success in Rome with La buona figliuola (‘The Good-Natured Girl’), to a Goldoni libretto after Samuel Richardson’s Pamela; this was only one of nearly 100 operas, serious and comic, from the years up to 1776. That year he went to Paris ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

which in time proved more vivacious and more expressive and emotionally appealing than opera seria. When popular taste demanded more substance than comic opera provided on its own, Carlo Goldoni (1707–93), originator of the opera buffa libretto, introduced parte serie – serious roles – to give the genre the required mixture of comedy and tragedy. Seria and buffa were ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

typified the character by a change of mood or style. In effect, the buffa finale resembled a synopsis in music of the plot and the characters featured in it. Goldoni and the Buffa Plot Buffa plots played a major role in popularizing the genre. They were simpler and bore greater resemblance to real life, while emphasizing its more amusing ...

Source: Definitive Opera Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie
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