La sposa fedele


La sposa fedele is an opera buffa in three acts by Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi. The Italian libretto was by Pietro Chiari.
It was Guglielmi's most successful opera, mixing both comedy and pathos.
There is an opera with the same title by Giovanni Pacini, first given in 1819.

Performance history

La sposa fedele was first performed at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice on 26 December 1766, though it is possible that it was given first in Cremona in 1765.
Other productions followed in Italy and elsewhere in Europe as La Rosinella, ossia La sposa fedele, La fedeltà in amore, La sposa costante, and La costanza di Rosinella. In Germany it was given as Robert und Kalliste, oder der Triumph der Treue. A German vocal score was published in 1777 in Berlin and Leipzig.

Roles

Synopsis

Rosinella and Pasqualino are separated when their ship is wrecked near the home of the Marchese del Vento Ponente. The Marchese and Conte Lelio have designs on Rosinella, but she is true to Pasqualino.