Trending Haydn Lo Speziale – Der Apotheker Hob. XXVIII:3 -Dramma giocoso-

Editor: Wirth, Helmut

Arranger: Wernhard, Eike

Orchestral scoring : piano/2SSolo/2TSolo

Language(s) of work: D/I

Product format: vocal score, Urtext edition

Binding: Paperback

Pages / Format: XI, 183 – 27,0 x 19,0 cm

The newly-built opera house in the park at Schloss Eszterháza 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.

– Vocal score based on the Haydn Complete Edition published by G. Henle
– Practical performing vocal score
– Original Italian text, with German singing translation
– Detailed foreword in two languages (German/English)