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''La fedeltà premiata'' (''Fidelity Rewarded''), Hob. XXVIII/10, is an opera in three acts by Joseph Haydn first performed at Eszterháza on 25 February 1781 to celebrate the reopening of the court theatre after a fire. It was revised for a new version first performed in 1782. ==Composition and performance history== The main opera house adjoining the palace at Eszterháza had been destroyed by fire in November 1779; ''La fedeltà premiata'', composed in 1780, inaugurated the new state-of-the-art theatre in the grounds which opened after major delays 15 months later. The opera was written during the most prolific period of Haydn's operatic composition between 1773 and 1783 when he composed eight Italian operas. The libretto was adapted by Haydn and an anonymous colleague from Giambattista's Lorenzi's ''L'infedeltà fedele'', which had been set by Cimarosa in 1779. Haydn had access to Cimarosa's score,〔Rice J. A., ''La fedeltà premiata'' in ''Haydn (Oxford Composer Companion)'', ed. Wyn, Jones D., Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002.〕 although the Neapolitan dialect and crude jokes were removed and the nine characters in the former setting reduced to eight by the conflation of two female roles.〔Clark C., ''La fedeltà premiata'' in ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'' ed. Stanley Sadie, London & New York, Macmillan, 1997.〕 In its revised (and shortened) version, ''La fedeltà premiata'' is designated a ''dramma pastorale giocoso'' (a comic opera with pastoral elements). The opera was revived twice in Eszterháza after 1782. In December 1784, Mozart attended a German-language production at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna,〔Robbins, Landon H. C. ''Mozart – the Golden Years.'' London, Thames and Hudson, 1989.〕 the work of his future collaborator Emanuel Schikaneder.〔Deutsch and Eisen (1991, 33–34)〕 However, after some performances in Bratislava from 1785–87,〔 as with all Haydn operas, it disappeared completely from the stage after his death. In 1958, the BBC broadcast extracts from an incomplete manuscript.〔Crichton R. ''Lonely Paradise'', in Glyndebourne Festival programme, 1979.〕 The first modern performance took place at the Holland Festival in 1970 and the first complete recording was made by Philips in 1976 in association with the Radio Suisse Romande and the European Broadcasting Union.〔 The 1979 Glyndebourne stage production was due to be recorded by Southern Television.〔Due to a technicians strike this fell through. Hughes S. ''Glyndebourne: A History of the Festival Opera.'' David and Charles, 1981.〕 The opera received its Munich première at the Cuvilliés Theatre on 25 March 2011 – 230 years after Mozart's ''Idomeneo'', its exact contemporary, premièred at that venue. Christopher Ward led a performance by the Bavarian State Orchestra and singers of the Bavarian State Opera's Opera Studio. 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「La fedeltà premiata」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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