La divisione del mondo (en: The Division of the World) is an opera in 3 acts by composer Giovanni Legrenzi.[1] The opera uses an Italian language libretto by Giulio Cesare Corradi and was commissioned by the Marquis Guido Rangoni.[2] The opera tells the story of the division of the world after the Titan deities were defeated by the Olympian gods. The goddess Venus provides the central conflict of the opera through a series of moral temptations which lead all of the other gods, with the exception of Saturn, into debauchery.[1]
La divisione del mondo premiered on 4 February 1675 in Venice at the Teatro San Salvador.[3] The opera was immensely successful at its premiere; and became Lengrenzi's most widely performed work, with 13 productions in Italy between 1683 and 1699.[4] Part of the work's success was due to the elaborate and expensive sets, machinery, and special effects employed at its premiere.[2]
^ abBruno Forment (2012). (Dis)embodying Myths in Ancien Régime Opera: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Leuven University Press. pp. 28–29. ISBN978-90-5867-900-0.
^ abAlois Maria Nagler (1959). A Source Book in Theatrical History. Courier Corporation. p. 269. ISBN978-0-486-20515-1.
^Giovanni Legrenzi; Giulio Cesare Corradi. Dario Zanotti (ed.). "La divisione del mondo" (PDF). librettidopera.it.
^Stephen Bonta: "Giovanni Legrenzi", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed 27 June 2005), (subscription access) 16 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^Review: La divisione del mondo. 2000. pp. 10–11. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^Thomé, Michel (22 March 2019). "La Divisione del Mondo à Nancy : crise familiale chez les Jupiter « La Scène « ResMusica" (in French). Retrieved 27 March 2019.
^Beth L(ise) Glixon (2005). Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth-Century Venice. Oxford University Press. p. 176. ISBN978-0-19-534836-1.
October 24, 2023
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