Operas by Antonio Salieri - Les Danaides, Europa Riconosciuta, List of Operas by Salieri, Falstaff, Der Rauchfangkehrer, La Cifra (Paperback)

Chapters: Les Danaides, Europa Riconosciuta, List of Operas by Salieri, Falstaff, Der Rauchfangkehrer, La Cifra, Prima La Musica E Poi le Parole, La Grotta Di Trofonio, Axur, Re D'ormus, La Scuola De' Gelosi, Armida, Les Horaces, Palmira, Regina Di Persia, Tarare, La Fiera Di Venezia, Il Ricco D'un Giorno. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 55. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Les Danaides is an opera by Antonio Salieri, in 5 acts: more specifically, it is a tragedie lyrique. The opera was set to a libretto by Leblanc du Roullet and Baron Tschudi, who in turn adapted the work of Ranieri de' Calzabigi (without permission). Calzabigi originally wrote the libretto of Les Danaides for Christoph Willibald Gluck, but the aged composer, who had just experienced a stroke, was unable to meet the Opera's schedule and so asked Salieri to take it over. The plot of the opera is based on Greek tragedy and revolves around the deeds of the mythological characters Danaus and Hypermnestra. Emperor Joseph II assured that Salieri wrote the music "almost under the dictee of Gluck," in a letter (dated 31 March 1783) to Count Mercy-Argenteau, the Austrian ambassador in Paris. Then Mercy told the directors of the Opera that Gluck had composed the first two acts, and Salieri supplied the third act's music (Mercy did not realize the opera was in five acts). Even when the libretto was published, Gluck and Salieri shared billing as the composers. Though flattered, Gluck was not foolish enough to risk too close an association with young Salieri's work and diplomatically informed the press: "The music of Danaides is completely by Salieri, my only part in it having been to make suggestions which he willingly accepted." Gluck, who had been devastated by the failure of his last Paris opera, Echo et Narcisse, was c...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1148593