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 Unpublished PhD thesis.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