Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace
Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace ("Don Quixote at Camacho's Wedding"), composed by Antonio Salieri, is an Italian-language opera. The libretto presents the opera as in one act (five scenes), and the musical score includes a mid-point division, both score, and libretto originally denoted the work a "divertimento treatrale". The libretto was written by , dancer, poet and stage manager, brother of the composer Luigi Boccherini. The work is loosely adapted from chapters 19 and 21 of Part II of the novel "Don Quixote" by Miguel de Cervantes. The work was a  hybrid opera buffa and ballet, with choreography by Jean-Georges Noverre. This opera was the third of Salieri's to be publicly performed, as well as his third collaboration with Boccherini. This was Salieri's fourth complete opera. Performance history. Salieri, wrote "Don Chisciotte" in Vienna in 1770, according to his first biographer Mosel it may have been the second or third work he wrote with Boccherini. It received its first performance during Carnival season the next year at the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna, the libretto is dated 1770, but it was most likely on performed on 6 January 1771. It  is believed the work was not revived until 8 October 2016 at the Festival Internacional Cervantino de Guanajuato México where it was performed in a concert performance by Les Nouveaux Caractères under the direction of Sébastien d'Hérin. Synopsis. "Summary:" Don Quoxite and Sancho Panza arrive at the wedding of Comacho (Gamace) and participate in dances and verbal intrigues as the wedding feast is prepared. Structure, genre, critical reception. The work combines dances, dance suites for ballet with arias, short songs, recitatives, and ensembles in an attempt to create a new artistic hybrid between Goldonian opera buffa and French ballet. The  work was scored for strings, pairs of oboes, bassoons, and horns. The orchestration was likely dictated by the post-performance needs for dancing at the theater's carnival ball. The work did not please and was apparently never revived in Vienna or elsewhere in Salieri's lifetime. Salieri reused the opening theme of the overture later in 1795 for his revision and completion of the opera "Il mondo alla rovescia" where it also serves as the main theme of the overture. Recordings. There is no known studio recording of the complete opera; however, "Antonio Salieri: Overtures", (Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra  (Bratislava), conducted by , Naxos 8.554838) has a recording of the overture.