L'equivoco stravagante

L'equivoco stravagante
Dramma giocoso by Gioachino Rossini
Rossini c. 1815
Librettist	Gaetano Gasbarri
Language	Italian
Premiere	26 October 1811 (1811-10-26) Teatro del Corso, Bologna

L'equivoco stravagante (Italian pronunciation: [leˈkwiːvoko stravaˈɡante]; The Curious Misunderstanding) is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Gaetano Gasbarri. It was Rossini's first attempt at writing a full two-act opera.

L'equivoco stravagante was first performed at the Teatro del Corso, Bologna, on 26 October 1811. It was only performed three times before the police closed the production down, possibly because the text touched on the subject of army desertion. The music of the overture was subsequently lost.

The opera was first produced in the United States (in English translation as The Bizarre Deception) by the Bronx Opera in January 2004.^[1]

Place: Italy

Time: Early 19th Century

Ermanno loves Ernestina, who is attracted to the rich, but foolish, Buralicchio. Ermanno's scheming results in Ernestina being arrested on suspicion of having deserted from the army (and really being a man in disguise), but he rescues her, and all ends happily.

Notes

Sources

• Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "L'equivoco stravagante, 26 October 1811". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
• Gossett, Philip; Brauner, Patricia (2001), "L'equivoco stravagante" in Holden, Amanda (ed.), The New Penguin Opera Guide, p. 767. New York: Penguin Putnam. ISBN 0-14-029312-4
• Osborne, Charles (1996), The Bel Canto Operas of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini, Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press, 1994 ISBN 0-931340-71-3
• Osborne, Richard (1998),"L'equivoco stravagante", in Stanley Sadie (Ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol. Two, p. 59. London: Macmillan Publishers, Inc. ISBN 0-333-73432-7 ISBN 1-56159-228-5
• Tommasini, Anthony, "Classical Music and Dance Guide" (Refers to Bronx Opera production), The New York Times, January 16, 2004. Accessed 8 December 2013.

• Libretto in Italian Retrieved 13 December 2012