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Music Text

Libretto by Curt Hotzel (G)

Scoring

colS,S,M,A,4T,2Bar,3B; chorus; 1.picc.1.corA.1.bcl.2-2.2.0.0-timp.perc(2):SD/tgl/cym/glsp/BD/xyl/tamb-harp-strings;
off-stage: 2hn.tpt.2trb.tuba-perc:SD

Abbreviations (PDF)

Publisher

Anton J. Benjamin / Simrock

Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.

Availability

World Premiere
1/24/1961
Pfalztheater, Kaiserslautern
Conductor: Carl Corvin
Company: Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern

Roles

PULCINELLA Baritone
PANTALONE, a confectioner Bass
ROSETTA, his niece Coloratura Soprano
BENEDETTO, her fiancé (Lyric) Tenor
TRUFFALDINO, police captain (Helden) Tenor
MASSACRO, alias Count Courtaucul (Buffo) Bass
ELMIRE, his wife Alto
LECCO, alias Doctor Malcontente Baritone
DOCTORESS, his wife Mezzo-Soprano
CACASODO, alias Amadeus Vogelsang Tenor
COLOMBINE, his lover Soubrette Doprano
MALOCCHIO, soldier Bass
PERDUTTO, soldier (Buffo) Tenor
Three dancers (female)
Citizens (male and female)
Time and Place

A little town at the Italian-Swiss frontier

Synopsis

Three crooks who escaped from prison try to establish their lives at large together with their ‘ladies’ (they pretend to be a count, a physician and a singer) by smuggling goods. Always in for amorous adventures, they play the old game ‘Cherchez la femme’. The first meeting is scheduled for eleven in the evening. Rosetta, the young and pretty niece of confectioner Pantalone, turns up, never averse to small smuggling deals. The three ‘dignitaries’ try to arrange a rendezvous with Rosetta. She invites them to the meeting in the evening.
Another of Rosetta’s suitors is Truffaldino, the local police captain, whose job it is to hunt the three runaways down. Rosetta, however, is secretly engaged to a young man from Switzerland. Had it not been for Pulcinella, who observes his surroundings with sharp eyes and a profound knowledge of human nature, the three cooks would have achieved their goal. Pulcinella overhears the crooks talking about their true identities. In the evening, during their meeting, he unmasks them. Together with the police captain, whose record is not as spotless as was originally assumed, they are taken away in a Black Maria, amidst a cheering crowd. Rosetta and Benedetto, her bridegroom, are finally united.

Moods

Comic

Subjects
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