I quattro rusteghi

I quattro rusteghi

I quattro rusteghi ("The Four Curmudgeons", usually given as "School for Fathers") is a comic opera in three acts, music by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to a text by Luigi Sugana and Giuseppe Pizzolato based on Carlo Goldoni's 18th-century play I rusteghi. The opera is in Venetian dialect. It was first performed at the Hoftheater in Munich on March 19, 1906. Wolf-Ferrari's most successful full-length work, it is still regularly performed.

Main characters

* Lunado - bass
* Margarita - mezzo-soprano
* Lucietta - soprano
* Simone - bass
* Marina - soprano
* Maurizio - bass
* Filiperto - tenor
* Cancion - bass
* Felice - soprano
* Riccardo - tenor

ynopsis

The action takes place in 18th century Venice.

Four curmudgeonly husbands vainly attempt to keep their women in order.The women decide to teach their menfolk a lesson by allowing Lunado's daughter Lucieta to see Filipeto, the son of Maurizio, before their pre-arranged marriage, even though the men have forbidden this.

ources

* "The Complete Dictionary of Opera & Operetta", James Anderson, (Wings Books, 1993) ISBN 0-517-09156-9


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