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Il piccolo Marat is a dramma lirico or opera in three acts by Pietro Mascagni, 1921, from a libretto by Giovacchino Forzano.
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Performance history
Il piccolo Marat was first performed on May 2, 1921 at the Teatro Costanzi, Rome. It was then performed many times in Italy and in South America, with at least 450 individual performances documented. [1]
While Mascagni was slated to perform the opera in the United States in 1926, logistics proved too difficult to rehearse it, and the North American premiere waited until April 13, 2009 when Teatro Grattacielo performed it at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, in New York City.
Roles
| Cast | Voice type | Premiere Cast, 2 May 1921[2] (Conductor: Pietro Mascagni) |
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| Mariella | soprano | Gilda Dalla Rizza |
| La principessa di Fleury | mezzo-soprano | Agnese Porter |
| Il piccolo Marat | tenor | Hipólito Lázaro |
| Il soldato | baritone | Benvenuto Franci |
| Il carpentiere | baritone | Ernesto Badini |
| L'orco | bass | Luigi Ferroni |
| Il capitano | Augusto Beuf | |
| La spia | Gino De Vecchi | |
| Il portatore | Arturo Pellegrino | |
| Il ladro | Michele Fiore | |
| La tigre | Mario Pinheiro | |
| Una voce | Luigi Nardi |
Recordings
Several recordings exist of the complete work, the most widely distributed of which features the husband and wife team of Virginia Zeani and Nicola Rossi-Lemeni with tenor Giuseppe Gismondo; this live 1962 recording from San Remo was issued on the Italian Cetra label as a 3 lp set and, later, a 2 cd set. A live concert performance from Holland, 1992, starring Susan Neves and Daniel Galvez-Vallejo, was issued on the Bongiovanni label.[3] Among significant recordings of selections of the opera are Hippolito Lazaro's 1926 recording (with soprano Mafalda de Voltri) of approximately 14 minutes of the opera beginning at "Sei tu? Che cosa vieni a fare?... Va nella tua stanzetta" [4]
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