Opera buffa
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Opera buffa is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as commedia in musica, commedia per musica, dramma bernesco,
L'elisir d'amore, 1832 opera buffa
Alessandro Scarlatti, one of the first major composers of opera buffa
Don Giovanni
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Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanish legend about a libertine, Don Juan, as tol
Opera buffa
…characteristic "basso buffo", a specialist in patter who was the center of most of the comic action. (A well-known basso buffo role is Leporello in Mozart's Don Giovanni.) Musical comedies…
Portrait of Francisco D'Andrade in the title role by Max Slevogt, 1912
The Estates Theatre in Prague, venue of the world premiere of Don Giovanni in 1787. The theatre had opened four years earlier as the Comital Nostitz National Theatre (Gräflich Nostitzsches Nationaltheater).
Playbill for the 1788 Vienna premiere of Don Giovanni
Ildebrando D'Arcangelo as Don Giovanni, Salzburg Festival 2014