Il mondo della luna (Avondano)
Il mondo della luna is a 1765 opera by Pedro António Avondano, which was the first opera by a Portuguese composer to be performed in the Portuguese court.[1] The libretto by Carlo Goldoni had been written originally for a setting by Galuppi in 1750.
Recording[]
- Avondano: Il mondo della luna. Os Músicos do Tejo, Marcos Magalhães 2CD, Naxos
References[]
- ^ Polzonetti, Pierpaolo. Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. p. 30. One of these settings is by Pedro António Avondano, whose Il mondo della luna was the first opera of a Portuguese composer to be performed in the Portuguese court (1765).
Categories:
- 1765 operas
- Italian-language operas
- Operas
- Drammi giocosi
- Libretti by Carlo Goldoni
- Science fiction operas
- Fiction set on the Moon
- Works about the Moon