The old intriguer’s opera La Scuola de’ Gelosi – ‘with a plot mirroring Mozart’s Così fan tutte’ – will receive its US premiere at Pacific Opera Project in Los Angeles next month.
The world premiere was at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice, on December 28, 1778.
This production is by Pacific Opera Project.
La Scuola de' Gelosi
By Antonio Salieri
The Highland Park Ebell Club
131 S. Avenue 57 Los Angeles, CA 90042
Friday, January 10 - 7:30 pm
Saturday, January 11 - 7:30 pm
Sunday, January 12 - 3:00 pm
Friday, January 17 - 7:30 pm
Saturday, January 18 - 3:00 pm
Sunday, January 19 - 3:00 pm
First published at Slippedisc and Pacific Opera Project, December 6, 2024
Synopsis by Presto Music
In its day La scuola de’ gelosi (1778) was one of the best-known comic operas by Antonio Salieri (1750–1825), remaining a box-office hit for decades. All the more astonishing is the fact that it could sink into obscurity.
Even Goethe was excited by this masterpiece: “The opera is the audience’s favourite, and the audience is right. It contains an astonishing richness and variety, and the subject is treated with the most exquisite taste. I was moved by every aria.”
In the wake of its world premiere in Venice in 1778, La scuola de’ gelosi was performed in opera houses all over Europe, from Dresden, Vienna, Prague and Paris to cities as far away as London and St Petersburg, before it passed into near-oblivion.
Not until well over two centuries later did Werner Ehrhardt and his ensemble, l’arte del mondo, rediscover this musical treasure.
Their world-premiere recording affords impressive proof of Salieri’s abilities and explores his shrewd delineation of character, whereby jealousy repeatedly rears its head in ever-new guises.
Synopsis published by Presto Music
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