Il campiello
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Il campiello (The Little Square) is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. The libretto was by Mario Ghisalberti,[1] after the famous comedy of the same name written for the 1756 Venetian Carnival by the great Venetian playwright, Carlo Goldoni.
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Il campiello | |
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commedia lirica by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari | |
Translation | The Little Square |
Librettist | Mario Ghisalberti |
Language | Italian (Venetian dialect) |
Based on | Il campiello by Carlo Goldoni |
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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).