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' (The mayor of Saardam) is an 1827 melodramma giocoso (opera buffa) in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The libretto, by Domenico Gilardoni, was based on the 1818 play ' by Mélesville, and . Albert Lortzing's 1837 opera ''Zar und Zimmermann'' is ultimately based, via a German translation, on the same French play. The plot concerns a famous episode in the life of Peter the Great, in which he disguised himself under an assumed name as a worker in the shipyards of Saardam, and has certain similarities to Donizetti's earlier 1-act farce ''Il falegname di Livonia''.〔Osborne 1994, pp. 169–171; Ashbrook 1982, pp. 44, 542–543.〕 ==Performance history== 19th century The opera premiered at the Teatro del Fondo in Naples on 19 August 1827.〔Gilardoni 1827.〕 The lead soprano role of Marietta was composed for prima donna Caroline Unger, who received high praise. The opera itself had a slow start, but soon the Neapolitans loved it, for Donizetti was very popular in that city, and it was still in the repertory the following year and achieved more than thirty-five performances.〔Osborne 1994, p. 170.〕 However, when the opera was staged at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 2 January 1828, and in Rome in June, it completely failed, receiving but a single performance in each city.〔Weinstock 1963, p. 322.〕 Its Milan failure pleased Donizetti's younger competitor, Vincenzo Bellini, whose ''Il pirata'' had won great critical and popular acclaim in Milan in October of the previous year.〔Ashbrook 1982, p. 48.〕 20th century and beyond The opera was also produced in Barcelona (1829), Vienna (1836), Berlin (1837), and Budapest (1839), but was then ignored until 1973, when it was staged in the town of its setting, now called Zaandam, where it received nine performances and was recorded.〔Osborne 1994, p. 170; see also the 1973 recording.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Il borgomastro di Saardam」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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