Il mondo della luna (The World of the Moon) is an opera (dramma giocoso) in 3 acts by Baldassare Galuppi. The Italian-language libretto was by Carlo Goldoni. It premiered on 29 January 1750 at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice.
The music has been described as "clear, with expressivity obtained through melodic and textural changes." Galuppi's music exploits "the capacity of the music to illustrate and portray the text," with special attention for Buonafede, credulous old man who is the central character of the plot.
The opera by Galuppi is the first based on Goldoni's libretto. The same libretto was later also set by several other composers, such as Pedro António Avondano (1765), Giovanni Paisiello (1774 under the title Il credulo deluso, 1783), Gennaro Astarita (1774), Joseph Haydn (1777), (1790, libretto revised by Domenico Somigli), and Marcos Portugal (1791, in Portuguese, under the title O lunático iludido).Pierpaolo Polzonetti, Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. p. 30. Paisiello composed four different versions of operas based on this libretto (one of them, 1783, was a reduction in two acts by Marco Coltellini; another, 1774, was performed as Il credulo deluso).
Roles +RoleVoice typePremiere cast, 29 January 1750According to the original libretto, carlogoldoni.it, University of Padua(Conductor: – )Ecclitico, a would-be astrologerbass Alessandro RendaBuonafede, credulous manbassFrancesco BaglioniFlaminia, daughter of BuonafedesopranoDionisia LepriClarice, another daughter of BuonafedecontraltoSerafina PenniLisetta, maidsopranoCostanza RussignuoliErnestosoprano (breeches role)Berenice PenniCecco, servant of ErnestobassFrancesco Carrattoli
Synopsis See synopsis in Haydn's Il mondo della luna.
Recordings 1997: Franco Piva, Intermusica Ensemble, Bongiovanni Cat: 2217/19 Ecclittico: Giorgio Gatti Buonafede: Gastone Sarti Flaminia: Paola Antonucci Clarice: Barbara di CastriLisetta: Patrizia Cigna Ernesto: Enrico Pacini Cecco: Claudio Ottino
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(reproduced online at Opera Manager)
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