Dramma giocoso

Dramma giocoso (Italian, funny drama ' ) is in Italy since the second half of the 18th century one of the many possible names for an opera buffa. The term was used regularly by Carlo Goldoni from 1748, indicates a mixture of the staff of opera buffa and opera seria, trying to avoid the contempt of opera buffa, especially in court circles.

In the substances of Goldoni and others, there are different types of roles: noblemen who musically related in one of the opera seria way be characterized and countrymen, old bachelors, maids and servants who in singing and acting the typical opera buffa comic- realistic side shape. In between are often still called parti di mezzo carattere ( " simple " figures, see roll compartment ) such as Donna Elvira in Mozart's Don Giovanni.

• Literature ( Italian)
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