La Serva Padrona by Artemis Opera New York July 2
La Serva Padrona will take place in a town house garden in Harlem with the address to be provided after ticket purchase due to the private nature of the venue, you will receive it automatically after ticket putchase at ‐
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The maid turned mistress! A short comedy by G.B. Pergolesi.
“Serpina” is “Uberto’s” maid, but she refuses to be seen as one. Together with “Vespone”, the other servant , she will convince “Uberto” to give her her place as the Mistress of the house.
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CAST
Jonathan Green- Uberto
Ago Agostaro- Vespone
Maestro Alexander Chaplinskiy – Piano
Jonathan Goldsmith- Subtitles
Adriana Valdes- Serpina
Alexander Chaplinsky- Piano
La Serva Padrona Artemis Opera New York July 2
Exclusive performance experience in Harlem, NYC.
This will be a modern little production and we count with a projector that will display the subtitles. It’s at a private garden in Harlem, small but beautiful and cozy and most important we will have the pleasure to enjoy music. It is also a “bring your own wine” type of event, we want the audience to have fun!
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La Serva Padrona Artemis Opera New York July 2
About Opéra La serva padrona
La serva padrona, or The Maid Turned Mistress, is a 1733 intermezzo by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736) to a libretto by Gennaro Federico, after the playby Jacopo Angello Nelli. It is some 40 minutes long, in two parts without overture, and was written as light-hearted staged entertainment between the acts of Pergolesi’s serious opera Il prigionier superbo. More specifically each of the two parts, set in the same dressing room, played during an intermission of the three-act opera to amuse people who remained in their seats.
| La serva padrona | |
|---|---|
| Opera buffa by G. B. Pergolesi | |
| Title page of a vintage opera program | |
| Description | Intermezzo |
| Translation | The Maid Turned Mistress |
| Librettist | Gennaro Federico |
| Language | Italian |
| Based on | La serva padrona by Jacopo Angello Nelli |
| Premiere | 5 September 1733 Teatro San Bartolomeo, Naples |
Federico’s libretto was also set by Giovanni Paisiello, in 1781.
Performance history
La serva padrona and the opera seria it punctuates were premiered at the Teatro San Bartolomeo on 5 September 1733, the first performances there after an earthquake the previous year in Naples had closed all theatres. Both were written for the birthday of Holy Roman Empress Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel a few days earlier.[1]
Il prigioniero superbo was unsuccessful in its day[2]but has been staged in the composer’s home town of Jesi several times and recorded there in 1997, 1998 and 2009, being filmed during the latter year. But La serva padrona was an immediate hit and became its own stand-alone work. Audiences found it appealing for its relatable characters: wily maid versus aging master. More significantly it became a model for the opera buffa genre and a quintessential piece bridging the Baroque and the Classical periods. With a new finale its French version provided the catalyst for the infamous Querelle des Bouffons.
Roles
| Role | Voice type | Premiere cast[3] 5 September 1733 |
|---|---|---|
| Uberto, an old man | buffo bass | Gioacchino Corrado |
| Serpina, his maid | soprano | Laura Monti |
| Vespone, his servant | silent actor |
Synopsis
Catherine Nelidova as Serpina (by Dmitry Levitzky, 1773)
Part 1 – dressing room
Uberto, an elderly bachelor, is angry and impatient with his maidservant, Serpina, because she has not brought him his chocolate today. Serpina has become so arrogant that she thinks she is the mistress of the household. Indeed, when Uberto calls for his hat, wig and coat, Serpina forbids him from leaving the house, adding that from then on he will have to obey her orders. Uberto thereupon orders Vespone to find him a woman to marry so that he can rid himself of Serpina.
Part 2 – same dressing room
Serpina convinces Vespone to trick Uberto into marrying her. She informs Uberto that she is to marry a military man named Tempesta. She will be leaving his home and apologizes for her behavior. Vespone, disguised as Tempesta, arrives and, without saying a word, demands 4,000 crowns for a dowry. Uberto refuses to pay such a sum. Tempesta threatens him to either pay the dowry or marry the girl himself. Uberto agrees to marry Serpina. Serpina and Vespone reveal their trick; but Uberto realizes that he has loved the girl all along. They will marry after all; and Serpina will now be the true mistress of the household.
Musical numbers
Part 1
- Aria: Aspettare e non venire (Uberto)
- Recitativo: Quest’è per me disgrazia (Uberto, Serpina)
- Aria: Sempre in contrasti (Uberto)
- Recitativo: In somma delle somme (Serpina, Uberto)
- Aria: Stizzoso, mio stizzoso (Serpina)
- Recitativo: Benissimo. Hai tu inteso? (Uberto, Serpina)
- Duetto: Lo conosco a quegli occhietti (Serpina, Uberto)
Part 2
- Recitativo: Or che fatto ti sei (Serpina, Uberto)
- Aria: A Serpina penserete (Serpina)
- Recitativo: Ah! quanto mi sa male (Uberto, Serpina)
- Aria: Son imbrogliato io già (Uberto)
- Recitativo: Favorisca, signor, passi (Serpina, Uberto)
- Duetto finale (†): Contento tu sarai (Serpina, Uberto)
(†It later became customary to replace this final duet with another: Per te ho io nel core. This the composer wrote two years later, in 1735, for his commedia per musica, Il Flaminio.)
Scores
The scores of the opera vary. Edwin F. Kalmus has one with massive omissions, wrong notes, and much spoken dialogue. Boosey & Hawkes has the score in an operetta adaptation by Seymour Barab, with highly simplified accompaniment and much spoken dialogue. Casa Ricordi presents the opera as sung through; it is the version most used. W. W. Norton & Companyincludes excerpts of the full score (for strings and continuo) that have numerous melodic differences from the Ricordi edition but correlate with the recording with Siegmund Nimsgern.[4]
Recordings and films
- Simonetto/Tuccari/Sesto Bruscantini, live in Capri, 1948, Cetra
- Pedrollo/Erato/Bacci, 1949, Polydor Vox
- Carlo Maria Giulini/Carteri/Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, 1955, Columbia
- Ferdinand Leitner/Mazzoleni/Cortis, 1955, Archiv
- Serra-G/Colorni/Rovetta, 1956, RCA
- FILM: Ferrara/Anna Moffo/Paolo Montarsolo, 1958 Mario Lanfranchi movie,[5] View Video (label)
- Virginia Zeani opposite her husband Rossi-Lemeni conducted by Singer, 1959, Vox
- Renata Scotto and Bruscantini conducted by Fasano, 1960, Ricordi
- Mariella Adani and Leonardi Monreale, Pomeriggi Musicali del Teatro Nuovo di Milano, Ettore Gracisconducting, 1960, Club Français du Disque; later Nonesuch Records H-71043
- Bugeanu/Petrescu-Cironeanu/Rintzler, 1961, Electrecord
- FILM: Australian TV movie with June Bronhill, 1962[6][7]
- Maier/Bonifaccio/Siegmund Nimsgern and the Collegium Aureum, 1969, BASF; later Deutsche Harmonia Mundi
- Koch-H/Miljaković/Süß, 1970, Telefunken
- Ros Marbà/Carmen Bustamante/Renato Capecchi, 1973, Ensayo
- Alberto Zedda/Celine/Bruscantini, 1974, Vedette Quadrifoglio
- Gordana Minov-Jevtović and Nikola Mitić, 1976, PGP RTB
- Németh/Katalin Farkas/József Gregor and the Capella Savaria, 1985, Hungaroton
- Palmer-R/Julianne Baird/John Ostendorf, 1989, Omega
- Hirsch/Bima/Salomaa, live in Waldkirch, 1990, Arts (label)
- Mason/Bunning/Donnelly, 1992, Meridian Records
- Bezzina/Isabelle Poulenard/Cantor, 1995, Pierre Verany
- FILM: Sigiswald Kuijken/Patricia Biccirè/Donato di Stefano and La Petite Bande, live in Brussels, 1996, Accent ACC 96123 D and TDK DVD
- FILM: Magnani/Sylvia Klein/José Carlos Leal, 1997 Carla Camurati movie,[8] Elimar Produções Artisticas, Brazil
- Marcello Panni/Scano/de Simone, live in Jesi, 1997, Bongiovanni
- Gustav Kuhn/Antonucci-P/di Stefano-D, live in Jesi, 1998, Arte Nova
- Clemente/Cozzoli/Govi, live in Bitonto, 1999, Kicco Classics
- Dallara/Zanello/Govi, 2006, Tactus Records
- FILM: Diego Fasolis/Sonya Yoncheva/Furio Zanasi, 2008 Swiss TV movie
- Deliso/Zyatkova/Torriani, 2011, Da Vinci
- FILM: Rovaris/Marianelli/Lepore, filmed in Jesi, 2011, Arthaus
- Scogna/Nisi/Benetti, 2013, Tactus Records
- Scogna/Liuzzi/di Gioia, 2017, Brilliant Classics
References
Notes
- ^ “Prigioniero superbo, Il” by Dale E. Monson, Grove Music Online
- ^ Grout and Williams (2003), p. 232
- ^ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). “La serva padrona, 5 September 1733″. L’Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
- ^ Palisca, pp. 1–15
- ^ La serva padrona at IMDb
- ^ Program listing, ABV Channel 2, listed at 8:30, in the 1 November 1962 edition of The Age, via Google News Archive
- ^ La serva padrona (1962 TV) at IMDb
- ^ La serva padrona at IMDb
Sources
- Grout, Donald Jay and Hermine Weigel Williams (2003), A Short History of Opera, Columbia University Press, pp. 229–232. ISBN 0-231-11958-5
- Palisca, Claude V. Norton Anthology of Western Music: Volume 2: Classic to Modern. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001 ISBN 0-393-97691-2
- Warrack, John and Ewan West (1992) The Oxford Dictionary of Opera. ISBN 0-19-869164-5
External links
Librettos
- Federico, Gennaro Antonio (1739). La serva padrona. Intermezzo per musica da rappresentarsi nel teatro formagliari il Novembre 1739. Bologna: Bayerische StaatsBibliothek digital. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
- Federico, Gennarantonio. “La Serva Padrona. Intermezzo in due parti”. www.librettidopera.it. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
Scores
- Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1757). La serva padrona. Intermezzo del Signore Giovanni Battista Pergolese rapresentato in Pariggi nell’ Autunno 1757 (1805 by Auguste Le Duc, reprint ed.). Paris: Radicciotti-Cherbuliez. Retrieved 13 January 2013.at University of North Texas
- La serva padrona: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
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