I quattro rusteghi
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Le donne curiose (1903) |
I quattro rusteghi (The Four Curmudgeons, usually given as School for Fathers) is a comic opera in three acts, music by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to a text by Luigi Sugana and Giuseppe Pizzolato based on Carlo Goldoni's 18th-century play I rusteghi. The opera is in Venetian dialect. It was first performed at the Hoftheater in Munich on March 19, 1906. Wolf-Ferrari's most successful full-length work, it is still regularly performed.
[edit] Main characters
- Lunado - bass
- Margarita - mezzo-soprano
- Lucietta - soprano
- Simone - bass
- Marina - soprano
- Maurizio - bass
- Filiperto - tenor
- Cancion - bass
- Felice - soprano
- Riccardo - tenor
[edit] Synopsis
The action takes place in 18th century Venice.
Four curmudgeonly husbands vainly attempt to keep their women in order. The women decide to teach their menfolk a lesson by allowing Lunado's daughter Lucieta to see Filipeto, the son of Maurizio, before their pre-arranged marriage, even though the men have forbidden this.
[edit] Sources
- The Complete Dictionary of Opera & Operetta, James Anderson, (Wings Books, 1993) ISBN 0-517-09156-9
