20. Domenico Fabbroni
(XVIIIth Century)
Two Stage Settings for “L’Amor Contrastato or La Molinara” by Giovanni Paisiello

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Fabbroni: Two Stage Settings

Two Stage Settings for “L’Amor Contrastato or La Molinara” by Giovanni Paisiello

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Watercolors, ca. 1788, 333 x 444 and 336 x 444 mm. La Molinara (it is slightly better known under that name), a comic opera, was first produced in Naples in 1788 and later in Hamburg, Berlin and Vienna. A similar but different stage setting, by Anton de Pian, for the Vienna production of 1790 is illustrated in Musikgeschichte im Bildern. Both settings here are interiors, a winery with casks and a dining room with card players. Both are on laid paper and one is signed outside the image; water stains and foxing visible only on the reverse. These designs may have been those for the first production.