Organization

Singer

Soprano

Benedetta Torre

Rosina

Conductor

Theodor Guschlbauer

Tenor

Luca Bernard

Fracasso

Edoardo Barsotti

Stage director

Claudia Blersch

Lighting designer

Andrea Locorotondo

Bass

Eduardo Martinez

Don Cassandro

Lorenzo Martelli

Don Polidoro

Xenia Tziouvaras

Giacinta

Rosalia Cid

Ninetta

Davide Piva

Simone

Set designer

Margherita Palli

Costume designer

Fondazione del Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

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Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Italian

La finta semplice -  (The Pretend Simpleton)

Florence

Italy

Teatro Goldoni

La finta semplice

Public

The Pretend Simpleton

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La finta semplice Mozart

Tra l’autunno del 1767 e la fine dell’anno seguente Mozart si trova a Vienna assieme al padre Leopold. Nella capitale dell’impero compone alcune pagine di musica sacra e qualche sinfonia ma soprattutto ha modo di assistere alle opere dei più illustri maestri del suo tempo, assimilandone la lezione con rapidità e naturalezza. La finta semplice, dramma giocoso in tre atti su libretto originale di Carlo Goldoni riadattato da Marco Coltellini, fu commissionata a un Mozart poco più che fanciullo da Giuseppe II. Ma il gesto dell’imperatore suscitò non pochi malumori e invidie nell’ambiente musicale viennese tanto che il debutto dell’opera, dopo ripetuti slittamenti, non avvenne a Vienna come previsto ma a Salisburgo nel 1769. Nonostante la giovanissima età e la poca esperienza teatrale, Mozart ne La finta semplice già dimostra di padroneggiare con disinvoltura gli stilemi dell’opera buffa italiana. Al soggetto di matrice goldoniana, già garanzia di brillantezza drammaturgica, il giovanissimo compositore aggiunge un’impronta musicale briosa e spumeggiante degna dell'enfant prodige più noto d’Europa.

italiano

Between the autumn of 1767 and the end of the following year Mozart was in Vienna with his father Leopold. In the capital of the empire he composed a few pages of sacred music and some symphony but above all he was able to attend the works of the most illustrious masters of his time, assimilating their lessons quickly and naturally. La finta semplice, a playful drama in three acts on an original libretto by Carlo Goldoni adapted by Marco Coltellini, was commissioned from a Mozart who was little more than a child by Giuseppe II. But the gesture of the emperor aroused not a few discontent and envy in the Viennese musical environment, so much so that the debut of the opera, after repeated postponements, did not take place in Vienna as expected but in Salzburg in 1769. Despite his very young age and little theatrical experience , Mozart in La finta Semplice already proves to master the stylistic features of the Italian comic opera with ease. To the subject of Goldonian origin, already a guarantee of dramaturgical brilliance, the very young composer adds a lively and bubbly musical imprint worthy of the most famous enfant prodige in Europe.

The Pretend Simpleton by Mozart, From (2023/2023), Directed by Claudia Blersch,, Conductor Theodor Guschlbauer, Edoardo Barsotti, Teatro Goldoni, Florence, Italy

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