''L'amore delle tre melarance'' is a 1761 play by

Carlo Gozzi __NOTOC__ Carlo, Count Gozzi (; 13 December 1720 – 4 April 1806) was an Italian ( Venetian) playwright and champion of Commedia dell'arte. Early life Gozzi was born and died in Venice; he came from a family of minor Venetian aristocracy, the T ...

for the

Teatro San Samuele Teatro San Samuele was an opera house and theatre located at the Rio del Duca, between Campo San Samuele and Campo Santo Stefano, in Venice. One of several important theatres built in that city by the Grimani family, the theatre opened in 1656 and ...

, Venice.Erika Fischer-Lichte ''History of European Drama and Theatre'' 2002 p145 0415180597 "As counter-programme to Goldoni's theatre reforms, Gozzi wrote various fantasy spectacles, L'Amore delle tre Melarance ... 1761 and 1765 for the company of Truffaldino, Antonio Sacchi, at the Teatro San Samuele, with extraordinary success." The play is best known today as the base for Prokofiev's opera ''

The Love for Three Oranges ''The Love for Three Oranges'', Op. 33, also known by its French language title ' (russian: Любовь к трём апельсинам, links=no, ''Lyubov' k tryom apel'sinam''), is a satirical opera by Sergei Prokofiev. Its French libretto ...

'' (''L'amour des trois oranges''). ''L'amore delle tre melarance'' is based on the Mediterranean (Italian) fairytale ''

'', written by Giambattista Basile in his ''

Pentamerone The ''Pentamerone'', subtitled ''Lo cunto de li cunti'' ("The Tale of Tales"), is a seventeenth-century Neapolitan fairy tale collection by Italian poet and courtier Giambattista Basile. Background The stories in the ''Pentamerone'' were collect ...

''.

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