Lo Speziale - Der Apotheker Hob. XXVIII:3
Dramma giocoso
by Franz Joseph Haydn
Tenor Voice - Sheet Music

Piano, 2 soprano voice solos, 2 tenor voice solos (piano, 2 Soprano Voice Solo, 2 Tenor Voice Solo)

SKU: BA.BA04641-90

Dramma giocoso. Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn. Edited by Helmut Wirth. Arranged by Eike Wernhard. This edition: urtext edition. Paperback. Vocal Score. Hob. XXVIII:3. Duration 50 minutes. Baerenreiter Verlag #BA04641-90. Published by Baerenreiter Verlag (BA.BA04641-90).

ISBN 9790006526178. 27 x 19 cm inches. Text Language: German, Italian. Translation: Peter Brenner. Text: Carlo Goldini.

The newly-built opera house in the park at Schloss Eszterhaza was opened in September 1768 with Lo Speziale . The work has combinations of roles and the complications typical for opera buffa . The two youths Mengone and Volpino complete for the affections of Grilletta , the pretty ward of the strange apothecary Sempronio . But the apothecary would prefer the girl for himself. In the end, true love triumphs.

Unfortunately, the score of Lo Speziale has not survived the centuries in a complete form. Parts of the music of the third act are lost. The corresponding text has been taken from the libretto.

The appendix includes a second version of aria no. 7, which has survived in Haydn's autograph .

The vocal score is based on the Urtext of the corresponding volume of the Haydn Complete Edition (XXV/3, 1959) and the Critical Commentary.