Dramma giocoso
Dramma giocoso (Italian, literally: drama with jokes; plural: drammi giocosi) is a genre of
act. Goldoni's texts always consisted of two long acts with extended finales, followed by a short third act. Composers Baldassare Galuppi, Niccolò Piccinni, and Joseph Haydn
set Goldoni's texts to music.
The only operas of this genre that are still frequently staged are Mozart and Da Ponte's Don Giovanni (1787) and Così fan tutte (1790), Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri (1813) and La Cenerentola (1817), and Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore (1832).
See also
References
- Stone, John (1990), HC Robbins Landon (ed.), "Mozart's Opinions and Outlook: Opera", The Mozart Compendium, London: Thames and Hudson, pp. 154–157
- Thiel, Eberhard (1984), Sachwörterbuch der Musik (in German) (4 ed.), Stuttgart: Kröner, OCLC 901925536
- ISBN 0-19-869164-5