Boccaccio

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### Based on

play by Jean-François Bayard, Adolphe de Leuven, Léon Lévy Brunswick and Arthur de Beauplan, based in turn on The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio

### Premiere

1 February 1879Carltheater, Vienna

***Boccaccio, oder Der Prinz von Palermo*** (*Boccaccio, or the Prince of Palermo*) 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 Bayard, Adolphe de Leuven, Léon Lévy Brunswick and Arthur de Beauplan, based in turn on *The Decameron* by Giovanni Boccaccio. The opera was first performed at the Carltheater, Vienna, on 1 February 1879.

## Synopsis

Time: 1331.

Place: Florence.

In early-Renaissance Florence, the erotic novellas of the poet Boccaccio cause a stir and the locals are divided into the female fans of his scandalous tales and their jealous husbands. A plot is hatched by the husbands to chase Boccaccio from the city and have him locked up. But Boccaccio has other plans, including one to win the hand of the Duke's daughter Fiammetta, which he finally succeeds in doing after finding favour with the Duke.

## Musical numbers

**Act 1**

* "Heut' am Tag' des Patrons von Florenz" - Checco, Leonetto, chorus
* "Misericordia pieta morto di Fame!" - Checco, chorus
* "Flotte Studiosen hier gibt's Rosen in der herrlichsten Pracht!" - chorus
* "Neu'este Novellen aus den besten Quellen" - Fratelli, chorus
* "Wie sie toben, wie sie schrei'n, ha ha ha!" - chorus
* "Holde Schöne, hör' diese Töne" - Lotteringhi, Lambertuccio, Lotteringhi, Scalza
* "Zu Hilfe, zu Hilfe, rettet schnell" - Beatrice, Scalza
* "Ha,  sie sind's, sie komenschonheran!" - Scalza, Leonetto, Giovanni Boccaccio (G5), Beatrice
* "Feigling, Verführer!" - Beatrice, Leonetto, Scalza, Giovanni Boccaccio, chorus
* "Ich sehe einen jungen Man dort stehn, nachein fernen" - Giovanni Boccaccio, Leonetto, chorus
* "Die Gloken läuten hell und rein" - Fiametta, Peronella
* "Hab' ich nur deine Liebe" - Fiametta, Giovanni Boccaccio
* "Ein armer Blinder fleht um Erbarmen" - Fiametta, Giovanni Boccaccio
* "Ehrsame Bürger der Stadt" - Lotteringhi, Lambertuccio, Scalza, chorus
* "Schnell die Schere! Sollt uns Bart und Haar' verkürzen" - Scalza, Beatrice, Leonetto, Pietro, Lotteringhi, Lambertuccio, Giovanni Boccaccio, Isabella, chorus

**Act 2**

* "Beim Liebchen, beim Liebchen, da ist man gern zu zwein" - Giovanni Boccaccio, Pietro, Leonetto, chorus
* "Ein Stern zu sein, wie würde es mich beglücken" - Giovanni Boccaccio, Pietro, Leonetto
* "Tagtäglich zankt mein Weib" - Lotteringhi, chorus
* "Tralalala, la la la la" - Lotteringhi, chorus
* "Wie pocht mein Herz so ungestüm" - Fiametta, Isabella, Peronella
* "Eine Frau Darf wohlbedacht manche Freiheit sich" - Isabella
* "So oft man mich nach Neuem fragt" - Giovanni Boccaccio
* "Benutzen wir den Augenblick" - Fiametta, Isabella, Peronella, Giovanni Boccaccio, Pietro, Leonetto, Beatrice, Lotteringhi, Lambertuccio, Scalza, Majordomo, chorus

**Act 3**

* "Erfrischende Quellen sing seine Novellen" - chorus
* "Immer zu undici, dodici, tredici, lalaralau" - Giovanni Boccaccio, Pietro, Leonetto
* "Um des Fürsten Zorn zu meiden" - Lambertuccio
* "Florenz hat schöne Frauen die Schönste bist du!" - Fiametta, Giovanni Boccaccio
* "Ihr Thoren, ihr wollt hassen mich" - Beatrice, Isabella, Peronella, Giovanni Boccaccio, Lotteringhi, Lambertuccio, Scalza
* "Susser Liebe Angewohnheit kämpfte mit des Schiksal's Droh'n heut" - Giovanni Boccaccio, Fiametta, Beatrice, Isabella, Peronella, Lotteringhi, Lambertuccio, Pietro, Scalza, Leonetto, Majordomo, chorus