''Il Trespolo tutore'' (''Trespolo the Tutor'') is a
comic opera
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Forms of comic opera first developed in late 17th-century Italy. By the 1730s, a ne ...
in three acts by the
Italian
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composer
Alessandro Stradella
Antonio Alessandro Boncompagno Stradella (Bologna, 3 July 1643 – Genoa, 25 February 1682) was an Italian composer of the middle Baroque period. He enjoyed a dazzling career as a freelance composer, writing on commission, and collaborating with ...
with a
libretto
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by
Giovanni Cosimo Villifranchi. It was first performed at the Teatro Falcone,
Genoa
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on 30 or 31 January, 1679. It is considered one of the first Italian comic operas.
Roles
Synopsis
Artemisia is in love with her tutor Trespolo but he is too dull-witted to realise this and is in love with the serving-maid Despina instead. Two brothers, Ciro and Nino, are in love with Artemisia; one of them goes mad and the other, who has been insane, is cured. The plot becomes more and more farcically complicated until, in the end, Trespolo marries Despina and Artemisia marries Ciro.
Sources
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*''The Viking Opera Guide'' ed. Holden (Viking, 1993)
Del Teatro (in Italian)
Editions
* A new edition by Michael Burden is underway for the ''Collecetd Works of Stradella'
Performances
* In 2004, a staging in a new edition by
Michael Burden
Michael Burden, FAHA, (born 14 March 1960) is an Australian musicologist, working in the United Kingdom. He was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2018.
Life
Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he was ...
and with a new English singing translation by Simon Rees was given by
New Chamber Opera
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at
New College, Oxford
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.
Recordings
Andrea de Carlo, Arcana 2020
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Italian-language operas
1679 operas
Operas
Operas by Alessandro Stradella