L'accademia di musica is an example of 'meta-theatrical' or 'meta-musical' opera, featuring music within the music and sung lines that would have been sung anyway.
Recording & Production
This recording of L'accademia di musica is a world premiere recording.
Composition History
Johann Simon Mayr's opera, L'accademia di musica, premiered in the autumn season of 1799 at the Teatro San Samuele in Venice.
Compositional Technique
The opera includes an aria for the character Momoletto that has no text, only technical musical terms like 'piano', 'crescendo', and 'forte', sung as he conducts an overture rehearsal.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The composer, Johann Simon Mayr, found it difficult to categorize L'accademia di musica, calling it a 'commedia, commediola, farsa, or whatever it may please you to call it'.
Composition History
L'accademia di musica is based on a two-act play of the same name by Francesco Albergati Capacelli, a well-known Bolognese writer.
Composition History
The librettist, Gaetano Rossi, was at the start of his prolific career when he wrote L'accademia di musica, having debuted only two years prior.
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