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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Il piccolo Marat canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf lyric tragedy
opera
character Il Boia
Il Carpentiere
Il Marinaio
Il Soldato
Il piccolo Marat
La Madre
Mariella
composer Pietro Mascagni
compositionEndYear 1921
compositionStartYear 1919
countryOfOrigin Italy
duration approximately 2 hours
firstPerformanceDate 1921-05-02
firstPublisher Casa Musicale Sonzogno
genre verismo
hasChorus mixed chorus
hasForm through-composed
historicalContext post-World War I Italian opera
language Italian
librettist Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti
Giuseppe Forzano
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
premiereLocation Teatro Costanzi
relatedWorkByComposer Cavalleria rusticana
Iris
Isabeau
settingCity a French coastal town
settingCountry France
settingPeriod French Revolution
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
Il piccolo Marat character Il piccolo Marat