Viva la Mamma

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Viva la Mamma opera, in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti. The Italian libretto was written by Domenico Gilardoni.

Also known as Viva la Diva or Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali ("Conventions and Inconveniences of the Stage").

The original text

Adapted from Antonio Simeone Sografi's plays Le convenienze teatrali (1794) and Le inconvenienze teatrali (1800).

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

2012: Presented at the Suidoosterfees (16–19 February)

Sources

Wayne Muller. 2018. A reception history of opera in Cape Town: Tracing the development of a distinctly South African operatic aesthetic (1985–2015). Unpublished PhD thesis.

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