Boccaccio (Suppé)
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Boccaccio is an operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé to a German libretto by Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée, based on the play by Jean-François-Antoine Bayard, Adolphe de Leuven, Léon Lévy Brunswick and Arthur de Beauplan. It was first performed at the Carltheater, Vienna, 1879.
[edit] Characters
- Principal roles
- Minor roles
- Checco - bass
- Fratelli, the bookseller - baritone
- Lotteringhi, the cooper - tenor
- Lambertuccio, the grocer - tenor
- Scalza, the barber - bass
- Beatrice - soprano
- Isabella - mezzo-soprano
- Peronella - soprano
- Stranger - baritone
- Other
- Beggars, students, Donna Pulci's daughters - chorus
[edit] Noted arias
- "Ich sehe einen jungen Mann dort stehn" (Boccaccio)