Il campanello

  • Don Annibale pistachio, a pharmacist ( bass)
  • Serafina, his wife (Soprano)
  • Rosa, her mother (mezzo- soprano)
  • Enrico, a young man, her nephew (baritone )
  • Spiridione, servant of the pharmacist (Tenor)
  • Wedding guests
  • Neighborhood

Il campanello or Il campanello di notte ( The Bells) is a farsa per musica in one act by Gaetano Donizetti. The libretto was written by the composer Donizetti himself, after the vaudeville La sonnette de nuit by Léon Lévy Brunswick, Matheu - Barthélémy Troin and Victor Lhérie. Premiered Il campanello on 1 June 1836 Teatro Nuovo in Naples. A revised version was listed in 1837 at the Teatro del Fondo in Naples.

Action

The work plays in Foria, a suburb of the Italian city of Naples, in the first half of the 19th century.

The senior pharmacist Don Annibale pistachio has the heartbreaker Enrico unclamped and married the young and pretty Serafina. The guests of the wedding are in a good mood. Especially Serafina's mother Rosa, who is happy that her daughter has made such a good match. Enrico has only one thing in mind: revenge. He wants the newly wed couple spoil the wedding night. So he takes advantage of it, that pharmacists up all night must be prepared. After the wedding, when the guests have adopted, Enrico appear in ever-changing disguises and ringing the night bell. He holds the pharmacist away with endless chatter and hard drugs produced from the bedroom. The next morning Don Annibale pistachio is an urgent need for an inheritance to Rome. Before his departure he admonished his young wife to open the door to anyone, and ultimately becomes, to the delight Enrico, to Rome.

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