- I quattro rusteghi
I quattro rusteghi ("The Four Curmudgeons", usually given as "School for Fathers") is a
comic opera in three acts, music byErmanno Wolf-Ferrari to a text by Luigi Sugana and Giuseppe Pizzolato based onCarlo Goldoni 's 18th-century playI rusteghi . The opera is in Venetian dialect. It was first performed at the Hoftheater inMunich onMarch 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 - tenorynopsis
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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