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''L’incontro improvviso'' (''The unexpected encounter'') (Hob. XXVIII:6) is an opera in three acts by Joseph Haydn first performed at Eszterháza on 29 August 1775 to mark the four-day visit of Archduke Ferdinand, Habsburg governor of Milan and his consort Maria Beatrice d'Este. The opera is designated a ''dramma giocoso'' (a comic opera) and is an example of the then Austrian fascination with Turkish subjects. 〔Clark C. L'incontro improvviso. In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'' ed Sadie S. London & New York, Macmillan, 1997.〕 ==Composition and Performance History== The libretto by Carl Friberth was adapted and translated from a French opera-comique by L. H. Dancourt, previously set by Gluck in 1764 as the ''La rencontre imprévue''. 〔Rice J A. L'incontro improvviso. In: ''Haydn (Oxford Composer Companion)'' ed Wyn Jones D. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002.〕 In keeping with Italian practice, Friberth constructed longer buffo finale texts at the end of Acts I and II. It is not known if any further performances followed the Eszterháza production, although a German translation was made for Bratislava. Danish musicologist Jens Peter Larsen discovered the autograph score in Leningrad in 1954, and the opera was subsequently broadcast in Russian in 1956. It was first staged in the UK at the Camden Festival in 1966.〔Clark C. L'incontro improvviso. In: ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'' ed Sadie S. London & New York, Macmillan, 1997.〕 The first complete recording was made by Philips in 1980 in association with the Radio Suisse Romande and the European Broadcasting Union, conducted by Antal Doráti. The first performance of the German translation was staged by Jakob Peter-Messer for the Wuppertal Opera in 2010 in cooperation with the Haydn-Institut in Cologne. 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「L'incontro improvviso」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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