La Servante Maitresse Comédie en deux Actes Mêlée d'Ariettes, Parodiées de la Serva Padrona, Intermede Italien. Représentée pour la premiere fois, par les Comédiens Italiens Ordinaires du Roi, le Mercredi 14 Aoust 1754. Et a la Cour devant leurs Majestés le 4 Decembre de la même année. Prix 9₶ ... Gravé par Melle. Vendôme. [Score]
- Paris: Chez Madame La Veuve Delormel, et Fils, rue du soin à l'Image Ste. Genevieve. Mr. Prault Fils, Quai de Conti. ... Avec Privileg, 1755
Paris: Chez Madame La Veuve Delormel, et Fils, rue du soin à l'Image Ste. Genevieve. Mr. Prault Fils, Quai de Conti. ... Avec Privilege du Roi .., 1755. Folio. Full contemporary ivory vellum. 1f. (recto title, verso "Personnages"), 77 pp. Engraved.
Binding worn, soiled, rubbed, and bumped, with several small stains. Light uniform browning; occasional minor foxing, mainly to blank outer and lower margins. First Edition in French. Paymer 137. Lesure p. 485. Hirsch II, 711. BUC p. 941. RISM P1398.
First performed in Naples at the Teatro San Bartolomeo on 28 August 1733.
The present work, with text by Gennaro Antonio Federico translated by Pierre Baurens, is the French version of Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona. It is quite different from the original and contains two additional airs not found there.
"La serva padrona is incomparably the finest of all comic intermezzi. ... Up until it was revived in Paris in 1752 [the work] enjoyed performances by various travelling Italian 'opera buffa' companies. By 1740 performances had been given in Venice, Dresden and Munich and subsequently it was heard from one end of Europe to the other. When it was revived [in Paris] by Bambini's company in 1752 La serva padrona and a few other similar works caused the `Guerre des Bouffons' - that most astonishing of storms in a teacup, in which the stately French operas of Lully and Rameau were incongruously compared with the frivolous Italian intermezzi." Grove V, Vol. VI, pp. 629-631.
"Of the hundreds of intermezzi produced by famous as well as obscure composers in the first half of the eighteenth century, Pergolesi's La serva padrona ... has deservedly maintained its popularity to our own time." Grout: A Short History of Opera, 2nd edition, p. 248.
"[It] ... is a work of true genius." The New Grove Vol. 14, p. 397.
Binding worn, soiled, rubbed, and bumped, with several small stains. Light uniform browning; occasional minor foxing, mainly to blank outer and lower margins. First Edition in French. Paymer 137. Lesure p. 485. Hirsch II, 711. BUC p. 941. RISM P1398.
First performed in Naples at the Teatro San Bartolomeo on 28 August 1733.
The present work, with text by Gennaro Antonio Federico translated by Pierre Baurens, is the French version of Pergolesi's La Serva Padrona. It is quite different from the original and contains two additional airs not found there.
"La serva padrona is incomparably the finest of all comic intermezzi. ... Up until it was revived in Paris in 1752 [the work] enjoyed performances by various travelling Italian 'opera buffa' companies. By 1740 performances had been given in Venice, Dresden and Munich and subsequently it was heard from one end of Europe to the other. When it was revived [in Paris] by Bambini's company in 1752 La serva padrona and a few other similar works caused the `Guerre des Bouffons' - that most astonishing of storms in a teacup, in which the stately French operas of Lully and Rameau were incongruously compared with the frivolous Italian intermezzi." Grove V, Vol. VI, pp. 629-631.
"Of the hundreds of intermezzi produced by famous as well as obscure composers in the first half of the eighteenth century, Pergolesi's La serva padrona ... has deservedly maintained its popularity to our own time." Grout: A Short History of Opera, 2nd edition, p. 248.
"[It] ... is a work of true genius." The New Grove Vol. 14, p. 397.