Le donne curiose (English: The Inquisitive Women) is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to a text by after Carlo Goldoni's play .
Performance history
The first dramatic work by Wolf-Ferrari to achieve more than local notice, it was first performed in Munich on 27 November 1903 in a German translation as Die neugierigen Frauen. The first performance in Italian was at the old Metropolitan Opera House in New York on 3 January 1912 with a cast led by Arturo Toscanini, including Geraldine Farrar and Hermann Jadlowker. Tullio Serafin conducted the first performance in Milan on 16 January 1913.
Roles
thumb|Geraldine Farrar and Hermann Jadlowker as Rosaura and Florindo
thumb|upright=1.3|Scene from act 3
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Role
!Voice type
!Premiere cast, 27 November 1903<br>Conductor: Hugo Reichenberger
!First performance in Italian,<br>3 January 1912<br>Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
|-
|Arlecchino
|bass
|Georg Sieglitz
|Antonio Scotti
|-
|Beatrice
|mezzo-soprano
|Charlotte Huhn
|Rita Fornia
|-
|Colombina
|soprano
|Hermine Bosetti
|Geraldine Farrar
|-
|Florindo
|tenor
|Hans Koppe
|Hermann Jadlowker
|-
|Leandro
|tenor
|Hans Breuer
|Jeanne Maubourg
|-
|Lelio
|baritone
|
|Andres de Segurola
|-
|Ottavio
|bass
|Paul Bender
|Adam Didur
|-
|Pantalone
|baritone
|Friedrich Brodersen
|Antonio Pini-Corsi
|-
|Rosaura
|soprano
|Ella Tordek
|Bella Alten
|-
|Lunardo
|bass
|
|
|-
|Mènego
|bass
|
|
|-
|Mómolo
|bass
|
|
|-
|Eleonora
|soprano
|
|
|-
|Asdrubale
|tenor
|
|
|-
|Almorò
|tenor
|
|
|-
|Alvise
|tenor
|
|
|-
|First gondolier
|tenor
|
|
|-
|Second gondolier
|bass
|
|
|-
|}
Synopsis
The story is a comedy set in 18th-century Venice about two wives checking up on the goings-on at their husband's club.
Notes
References
- Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992), The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 782 pages,
External links
- Work details, opera-guide.ch