Farsa

A farsa - a sham or farce - was in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, particularly in Venice and Naples, the term for the mostly one-, two-act opera buffa rare predominantly coarse -erotic, almost lascivious content. But there were also those with serious or touching action ( farsa sentimental, farsa lagrimosa ).

Known pieces

A master of farsa was the German composer Johann Simon Mayr; from his pen originate L' Intrigo della lettera (1797 ), L' avaro (1799 ), Il carretto del venditore d' aceto and La Locandiera (both 1800), L' amor coniugale (1805 ), I virtuosi or L' amor ingegnoso. Are known especially the farse that the young Gioachino Rossini wrote 1810-1813: La di matrimonio cambiale, L' inganno felice, La scala di seta and Il Signor Bruschino. A late Gaetano Donizetti farsa is originally one-act opera Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali of 1827 - in German-speaking better known under the title Viva la Mamma! . The farsa was a stage form with which even young composer could earn their first merits without them and the theater operators would have an excessive risk to expose. For a farsa could be realized without major circumstances: There were few vocal parts ( and no chorus), a single stage ( which could be used unchanged for almost all of these pieces ) and a minimally occupied orchestra.

Librettists

The most important librettist for heifers were the Venetian Giuseppe Maria Foppa and the Veronese Gaetano Rossi. Your libretti were set to music by Giuseppe Farinelli, Pietro Generali, Johann Simon Mayr, Giuseppe Mosca, Gioachino Rossini and Vittorio Trento.

• Genre of musical theater
• Opera Genre
• Opera in Italian
• Farsa