Il piccolo Marat

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Il piccolo Marat is an early 20th-century Italian opera notable for its intense verismo style and dramatic revolutionary setting.

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instanceOf lyric tragedy
opera
character Il Boia NERFINISHED
Il Carpentiere NERFINISHED
Il Marinaio NERFINISHED
Il Soldato NERFINISHED
Il piccolo Marat NERFINISHED
La Madre NERFINISHED
Mariella NERFINISHED
composer Pietro Mascagni NERFINISHED
compositionEndYear 1921
compositionStartYear 1919
countryOfOrigin Italy
duration approximately 2 hours
firstPerformanceDate 1921-05-02
firstPublisher Casa Musicale Sonzogno NERFINISHED
genre verismo
hasChorus mixed chorus
hasForm through-composed
historicalContext post-World War I Italian opera
language Italian
librettist Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti NERFINISHED
Giuseppe Forzano NERFINISHED
movement Italian verismo
notableFeature highly expressive orchestration
intense dramatic writing
large choral scenes
violent revolutionary atmosphere
numberOfActs 3
orchestration large late-Romantic orchestra
premiereCity Rome NERFINISHED
premiereLocation Teatro Costanzi NERFINISHED
relatedWorkByComposer Cavalleria rusticana NERFINISHED
Iris NERFINISHED
Isabeau NERFINISHED
settingCity a French coastal town
settingCountry France NERFINISHED
settingPeriod French Revolution NERFINISHED
structure three-act opera
style expressionistic elements
late-Romantic
theme love in wartime
revolution
sacrifice
tyranny and oppression
vocalTypeOfIlBoia bass
vocalTypeOfIlCarpentiere baritone
vocalTypeOfLaMadre mezzo-soprano
vocalTypeOfMariella soprano
vocalTypeOfTitleRole tenor

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Pietro Mascagni composed Il piccolo Marat