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The Apothecary, Henry Ross (Mengone), Iuno Connolly (Grilletta)

Bampton Classical Opera – Haydn’s The Apothecary

The Apothecary (1768) was the first opera that Haydn wrote (in Italian as Lo speziale) for the court at Esterháza (inaugurating its opera house). It sets a libretto by the prominent Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni and condenses the typical elements of mid and late 18th century opera buffa to a scenario with just four characters. In …

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Bampton Opera Salieri 'At the Venice Fair' Ensemble

Bampton Classical Opera – Salieri’s At the Venice Fair

Salieri’s sixth opera, La fiera di Venezia (1772) is set during Venice’s famous Ascension Day ceremony (the Festa della Sensa) rather than at carnival time earlier in the year and is rendered here as At the Venice Fair in Gilly French and Jeremy Gray’s translation, updating some of its references and idioms. The librettist, incidentally, was the brother of Luigi …

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