Niccolò Piccinni (1 agos 1728 anni – 1 gen 1800 anni)
Descrizione:
Novels Sung on Stage—Niccolò Piccinni 1. Opera criticism often reflects social history; this is evident throughout the eighteenth century. 2. Niccolò Piccinni based his most famous opera, La buona figliuola, on a novel, which itself was a new genre in the eighteenth century. a. Based on the English novel Pamela, it features social nobility. b. When translated into Italian (both literally and socially, by Goldoni), the plot had to be altered to allow the characters to marry, to meet Italian laws forbidding a commoner to marry into upper classes. 3. Piccinni used sentimentality and rustic simplicity to make his music sound “natural.” 4. He sought to remove artifice and replace it with the newfound sentimental stylets seen in the new genre of novel.