Il mondo della luna (Avondano) explained

Il mondo della luna is a 1765 opera by Pedro António Avondano, which was the first opera by a Portuguese composer to be performed in the Portuguese court.^[1] The libretto by Carlo Goldoni had been written originally for a setting by Galuppi in 1750.

Recording

• Avondano: Il mondo della luna - Artistic directors: Marta Araújo, Marcos Magalhães; Os Músicos do Tejo, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisbon 1994; Naxos CD: 8.660487-88

Notes and References

1. Polzonetti, Pierpaolo. Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. p. 30. One of these settings is by Pedro António Avondano, whose Il mondo della luna was the first opera of a Portuguese composer to be performed in the Portuguese court (1765).