Il mondo della luna (Avondano)

Il mondo della luna is a 1765 opera by Pedro António Avondano, which was the first opera by a Portuguese composer to be performed in the Portuguese court.[1] The libretto by Carlo Goldoni had been written originally for a setting by Galuppi in 1750.

Recording

Avondano: Il mondo della luna. Os Músicos do Tejo, Marcos Magalhães 2CD, Naxos

References

Polzonetti, Pierpaolo. Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. p. 30. One of these settings is by Pedro António Avondano, whose Il mondo della luna was the first opera of a Portuguese composer to be performed in the Portuguese court (1765).

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[1] Polzonetti, Pierpaolo. Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. p. 30. One of these settings is by Pedro António Avondano, whose Il mondo della luna was the first opera of a Portuguese composer to be performed in the Portuguese court (1765).