Il mondo della luna (Galuppi)
# Il mondo della luna (Galuppi)

Il mondo della luna (The World of the Moon) is an opera (dramma giocoso) in 3 acts by Baldassare Galuppi. The Italian-language libretto was by Carlo Goldoni. It premiered on 29 January 1750 at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice.

The music has been described as "clear, with expressivity obtained through melodic and textural changes." Galuppi's music exploits "the capacity of the music to illustrate and portray the text," with special attention for Buonafede, credulous old man who is the central character of the plot.

The opera by Galuppi is the first based on Goldoni's libretto. The same libretto was later also set by several other composers, such as Pedro António Avondano (1765), Giovanni Paisiello (1774 under the title Il credulo deluso, 1783), Gennaro Astarita (1774), Joseph Haydn (1777), Michele Neri Bondi [it] (1790, libretto revised by Domenico Somigli), and Marcos Portugal (1791, in Portuguese, under the title O lunático iludido). Paisiello composed four different versions of operas based on this libretto (one of them, 1783, was a reduction in two acts by Marco Coltellini; another, 1774, was performed as Il credulo deluso).

## Roles

Roles, voice types, premiere cast :

| Role | Voice type | Premiere cast, 29 January 1750 (Conductor: – ) |
| - | - | - |
| Ecclitico, a would-be astrologer | bass | Alessandro Renda |
| Buonafede, credulous man | bass | Francesco Baglioni |
| Flaminia, daughter of Buonafede | soprano | Dionisia Lepri |
| Clarice, another daughter of Buonafede | contralto | Serafina Penni |
| Lisetta, maid | soprano | Costanza Russignuoli |
| Ernesto | soprano (breeches role) | Berenice Penni |
| Cecco, servant of Ernesto | bass | Francesco Carrattoli |

## Synopsis

See synopsis in Haydn's Il mondo della luna.

## Recordings

1997: Franco Piva, Intermusica Ensemble, Bongiovanni Cat: 2217/19 :

| Ecclittico: Giorgio Gatti Buonafede: Gastone Sarti Flaminia: Paola Antonucci Clarice: Barbara di Castri | Lisetta: Patrizia Cigna Ernesto: Enrico Pacini Cecco: Claudio Ottino |
| - | - |
