La fiera di Venezia

Antonio Salieri

Operas Le donne letterate (1770) L'amore innocente (1770) Armida (1771) La fiera di Venezia (1772) Europa riconosciuta (1778) La scuola de' gelosi (1778) Der Rauchfangkehrer (1781) Il ricco d'un giorno (1784) Les Danaïdes (1784) La grotta di Trofonio (1785) Les Horaces (1786) Prima la musica e poi le parole (1786) Tarare (1787) Axur, re d'Ormus (1788) La cifra (1789) Palmira, regina di Persia (1795) Falstaff (1799)

La fiera di Venezia is a three-act opera buffa, described as a commedia per musica, by Antonio Salieri, set to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini.

Performance history

The opera premiered with great success on January 29, 1772 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria.^[1] La fiera di Venezia turned out to be one of Salieri's best regarded works and during his lifetime was staged more than thirty times throughout Europe. ^[2]

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, 29 January 1772 (Conductor:)
Falsirena	soprano
Calloandra	soprano
Cristallina	soprano
Ostrogoto	tenor
Rasoio	tenor
Cecchino	tenor
Grifagno	bass
Belfusto	bass

References

Amadeus Almanac (29 January 1772), accessed 27 January 2009