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Domenico Cimarosa His Life and His Operas
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Nick Rossi, Talmage Fauntleroy
ISBN: 0-313-30112-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30112-4
240 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 9/30/1999
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £91.95)
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Media Type: Hardcover
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Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: This is the first book in English about Domenico Cimarosa, his more than 65 operas and his sacred and secular vocal music, his keyboard music, and his various works for solo instruments and ensembles. This is also the first authoritative book on Cimarosa since an Italian biography published in 1939. Since that earlier tome was published, many important discoveries have come to light. The authors completed most of their research work at the library of the Conservatorio di musica S Pietro a Majella in Naples. Their efforts have uncovered new information on the composer's marriages, wives, children, actual performance locations, dates of first performances of his operas, and his professional appointments and contacts.

The first half of the book is devoted to a chronological description of Cimarosa's life and provides background material on the customs of the times and contemporary descriptions of the music conservatories in Naples where Cimarosa studied, as well as those in Venice where he was appointed Maestro. The second part presents an alphabetical listing of Cimarosa's more than 65 operas, including alternate names for those that were produced on different stages under different names. Included with each opera is a simple outline of the plot, the cast of characters and their voice ranges, and basic information about the structure of the music itself.
Table of Contents:
  • His Life
    Cimarosa: The Man and His Music
    The Youthful Years (1749-1771)
    The Setting: Opera in Naples During the 18th Century
    The Early Operas: From Le stravaganze del conte (1772) to L'infedeltà fedele (1779)
    The Road to Success
    An Amorous Intermezzo
    Russia
    The Years of Glory
    The Final Years
    His Operas
    Achille all'assedio di Troja
    Alessandro nell'Indie
    Amor combatutto dalle donne di punto
    Gli amanti comici
    Amor rende sagace
    L'apparenza inganna
    L'apprensivo raggirato
    L'Armida immaginaria
    Artaserse
    Artemesia
    Artemesia, regina di Caria
    Le astuzie femminili
    L'avviso ai maritati
    La ballerina amante
    La baronessa Stramba
    La bella Greca/I matrimoni impensati
    La biondolina
    Cajo Mario
    La calamità dei cuori
    Il capriccio drammatico
    Chi dell'altrui si veste presto si spoglia
    Circe
    Il credulo
    La donna sempre al suo peggior s'appiglia
    Le donne rivali
    I due baroni di Rocca Azzura
    I due supposti conti, ossia Lo sposo senza moglie
    L'Eroe cinese
    Il Falegname
    Il fanatico burlato
    Il fanatico per gli antichi romani
    La felicità inaspettata
    La finta amalata
    La finta frascatana
    La finta parigina
    I finti nobili
    Gare degli'amanti
    Giannina e Bernardone
    Giunio Bruto
    L'impegno superato
    L'impresario in angustie
    L'imprudente fortunato
    L'infedeltà fedele
    L'italiana in Londra
    Il maestro di cappella
    Le magie di Merlina e Zoroaster
    Il marito disperato
    I matrimoni in ballo
    Il matrimonio per raggiro
    Il matrimonio segreto
    Il mercato di Malmantile
    I nemici generosi
    L'Olimpiade
    Gli Orazii e i Curiazzi
    Oreste
    Penelope
    Pigmalinoe
    Il pittor parigino
    Il ritorno di Don Calandrino
    Gli sdegni per amore
    Li sposi per accidente
    Le stravaganze d'amore
    Le stravaganze del conte
    I traci amanti
    Le trame deluse
    I tre amanti
    La vanità delusa
    Il vecchio burlato
    La vergine del sole
    La villana riconosciuta
    Voldomiro
    Bibliography
    Index
About the Author: NICK ROSSI was the author of fifteen books on music, including Music Through the Centuries, Hearing Music: An Introduction, and Opera in Italy Today: A Guide. He was Administrative Director of Studio Lirico in Cortona, Italy.

TALMAGE FAUNTLEROY is currently the Director of OPERA at USC, University of South Carolina, and Artistic Director of Opera Carolina Theater in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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