Le trame deluse (1786) (Full Score, hardback)

Cimarosa Le trame deluse (1786) (Full Score, hardback)

Le trame deluse is one of Domenico Cimarosa's most successful stage works.  The three-act commedia per musica, based on a libretto by Giuseppe Maria Diodati, premiered in 1786 at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples and was performed on numerous stages in Italy and abroad until the early 19th century.  In German, the work was performed under the title ‘Die vereitelten Ränke’ (The Thwarted Intrigues) in Vienna in 1787, Bratislava in 1788, Budapest in 1789, Dresden in 1789, Weimar in 1794 and Berlin in 1808, among other places .  For the Weimar Court Theatre, where the opera remained in the repertoire until 1809, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had his own version created and was personally involved in the translation of the vocal numbers.
 The critical edition will make the work accessible again for the first time for music research and stage practice.

Concentus Musicus
Publications of the Department of Music History at the German Historical Institute in Rome

Concentus Musicus presents, in loose succession, modern editions of Italian music with an emphasis on theatre, oratorios and cantatas.  Some of the works are of epochal importance, such as Giovanni Paisiello’s Il barbiere di Siviglia (Vol. X/1-2), composed for the court of the Russian tsars in 1782.

The linen-bound volumes are lavishly produced and suitable for study and performance purposes alike.  Besides a scholarly-critical edition of the music and the words, each volume contains a Foreword, a wide-ranging context-related Introduction with representative facsimiles on the genesis, performance history and historical stature of the work in question, as well as a concise Critical Commentary with a detailed account of the sources.

- Concentus Musicus Volume 18