|
''La gazza ladra'' ((:la ˈɡaddza ˈlaːdra), ''The Thieving Magpie'') is a ''melodramma'' or opera semiseria in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, with a libretto by Giovanni Gherardini based on ''La pie voleuse'' by Jean-Marie-Theodor Badouin d'Aubigny and Louis-Charles Caigniez. The composer Giaochino Rossini wrote quickly, and ''La gazza ladra'' was no exception. According to legend, before the first performance of the opera, the producer assured the composition of the overture by locking Rossini in a room, from the window of which the composer threw out the sheets of music to the copyists who then wrote the orchestral parts, to complete the composition of the opera. As such, ''The Thieving Magpie'' is best known for the overture, which is musically notable for its use of snare drums. The unique inspiration in the melodies is extreme, famously used to bizarre and dramatic effect in Stanley Kubrick's ''A Clockwork Orange''. This memorable section in Rossini's overture invokes the image of the opera's main subject: a clever, devilishly thieving magpie. ==Performance history== The first performance of ''The Thieving Magpie'' was on 31 May 1817, at La Scala, Milan. In 1818, Rossini revised the opera for subsequent productions in Pesaro; and then in 1819 for the Teatro del Fondo, in Naples, in 1820 for the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, and in 1866 revised the music for performance in Paris. The first performance of ''The Thieving Magpie'' in England was at the King's Theatre, London, on 10 March 1821. As the French-language ''La pie voleuse'', the opera's first performance in the United States was at the Théâtre d'Orléans, New Orleans, on 30 December 1828.〔Warrack & West 1992, pp. 269–270.〕 In 1941, Riccardo Zandonai composed a version of ''The Thieving Magpie'' for a revival of the opera in Pesaro. In 1979, Alberto Zedda edited Rossini's original composition of the opera for publication by the Fondazione Rossini. In 2013, the Bronx Opera of New York City performed an English-language version of ''La gazza ladra''. 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 gazza ladra」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|