Hidden treasures - Antonio Salieri - Falstaff ossia le tre burle (1799) - Selected highlights

Painting: “Behind the scene“ by Carl Spitzweg. History: It is not known whether one of the early German versions of “The merry wives“ by Ritter (1794) and von Dittersdorf (1796) were known to Salieri, though the original play itself had been performed in Vienna on numerous occasions. Salieri turned for what was his thirty-seventh opera to Carlo Defranceschi, a little-known figure active in Prague and Vienna, his skillful Italian adaptation, however? proves that he was well-chosen for the task, and the du