Boccaccio (Suppé)

Encyclopedia : B : BO : BOC : Boccaccio (Suppé)

Boccaccio is an operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé to a German libretto by Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée, based on the play by Jean-François-Antoine Bayard, Adolphe de Leuven, Léon Lévy Brunswick and Arthur de Beauplan. It was first performed at the Carltheater, Vienna, 1879.

Characters

Principal roles
*Leonetto - tenor
*Giovanni Boccaccio - tenor or baritone
*Fiametta - soprano
*Pietro - tenor
Minor roles
*Checco - bass
*Fratelli, the bookseller - baritone
*Lotteringhi, the cooper - tenor
*Lambertuccio, the grocer - tenor
*Scalza, the barber - bass
*Beatrice - soprano
*Isabella - mezzo-soprano
*Peronella - soprano
*Stranger - baritone
Other
*Beggars, students, Donna Pulci's daughters - chorus

Noted arias

"Ich sehe einen jungen Mann dort stehn" (Boccaccio)

Plot synopsis

Time: 1331.

Place: Florence.

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.