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''[[Il matrimonio segreto]]'' ("The Secret Marriage") is a ''dramma giocoso'' in two acts, music by Domenico Cimarosa, on a libretto by Giovanni Bertati.
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==

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Il matrimonio segreto ("The Secret Marriage") is a dramma giocoso in two acts, music by Domenico Cimarosa, on a libretto by Giovanni Bertati.

The original text

Based on the 1766 play The Clandestine Marriage by George Colman the Elder and David Garrick. It was first performed on 7 February 1792 at the Imperial Hofburg Theatre in Vienna in the presence of Emperor Leopold II.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1933: Performed by students of the South African College of Music, produced by Guiseppe Paganelli in the Little Theatre.

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 Unpublished PhD thesis.

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