La serva padrona
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| - | The '''Querelle des Bouffons''' (also known as the '''Guerre des Bouffons'''; English: '''War of the Comic Actors''') was the name given to a battle of musical philosophies in [[France]] which took place between 1752 and 1754. The controversy concerned the relative merits of [[French opera|French]] and [[Italian opera|Italian]] [[opera]]. | + | '''''La serva padrona''''' ('''''The Servant Turned Mistress''''') is an [[opera buffa]] by [[Giovanni Battista Pergolesi]] (1710 – 1736) to a [[libretto]] by [[Gennaro Antonio Federico]], after the [[Play (theatre)|play]] by [[Jacopo Angello Nelli]]. The opera is only 45 minutes long and was originally performed as an [[intermezzo]] between the acts of a larger serious opera. (The same libretto was set by [[Giovanni Paisiello]] in 1781.) |
| - | It was sparked by the reaction of literary Paris to a performance of [[Giovanni Battista Pergolesi]]'s short [[intermezzo]] ''[[La serva padrona]]'' at the [[Académie royale de musique]] in [[Paris]] on August 1, 1752. ''[[La serva padrona]]'' was performed by an itinerant Italian troupe of comic actors, known as ''buffoni'' (''bouffons'' in French, hence the name of the quarrel). The work had already been given in Paris in 1746, but had attracted little notice. This time it provoked a full-scale war of words between the defenders of the French operatic tradition and the champions of Italian music. In the controversy which followed critics such as [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] and [[Friedrich Melchior Grimm]], together with other writers associated with the [[Encyclopédie]] praised Italian [[opera buffa]] and compared it favourably to [[French lyric tragedy]], a style originated by [[Jean-Baptiste Lully]] and promoted among then-living composers such as French [[composer]] [[Jean-Philippe Rameau]]. | ||
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| - | *[[Bouffon]] | ||
| - | *[[Style war]] | ||
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La serva padrona (The Servant Turned Mistress) is an opera buffa by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 – 1736) to a libretto by Gennaro Antonio Federico, after the play by Jacopo Angello Nelli. The opera is only 45 minutes long and was originally performed as an intermezzo between the acts of a larger serious opera. (The same libretto was set by Giovanni Paisiello in 1781.)
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