Il campiello

Il campiello (The Little Square) is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. The libretto was by Mario Ghisalberti, after the famous comedy of the same name written for the 1756 Venetian Carnival by the great Venetian playwright, Carlo Goldoni.

Il campiello
commedia lirica by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
The composer in 1906
TranslationThe Little Square
LibrettistMario Ghisalberti
LanguageItalian (Venetian dialect)
Based onIl campiello
by Carlo Goldoni
Premiere
11 February 1936 (1936-02-11)
La Scala, Milan

Referred to as a commedia lirica, it is an ensemble opera influenced by Mozart, as well as Giuseppe Verdi's last opera Falstaff. It is concerned with the public lives of the volatile inhabitants of a "campiello" in Venice and is sung in the local dialect (except for two Neapolitan roles).

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