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Le donne curiose

Opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Le donne curiose
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Le donne curiose (English: The Inquisitive Women) is an opera in three acts by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to a text by Luigi Sugana [it] after Carlo Goldoni's play of the same name [it].

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Performance history

The first dramatic work by Wolf-Ferrari to achieve more than local notice, it was first performed in Munich on 27 November 1903 in a German translation as Die neugierigen Frauen. The first performance in Italian was at the old Metropolitan Opera House in New York on 3 January 1912 with a cast led by Arturo Toscanini, including Geraldine Farrar and Hermann Jadlowker. Tullio Serafin conducted the first performance in Milan on 16 January 1913.

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Geraldine Farrar and Hermann Jadlowker as Rosaura and Florindo
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Scene from act 3
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The men at their club, act 1
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Synopsis

The story is a comedy set in 18th-century Venice about two wives checking up on the goings-on at their husband's club.

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