I quatro rusteghi
| I quatro rusteghi | |
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| Comic opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari | |
The composer in 1906 | |
| Translation | The Four Curmudgeons |
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| Language | Italian (Venetian dialect) |
| Based on | I rusteghi by Carlo Goldoni |
| Premiere | |
I quatro rusteghi (The Four Curmudgeons, The Four Ruffians, in Edward J. Dent's translation School for Fathers, also translated by James Benner as Foolish Fathers) is a comic opera in three acts, music by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari to a libretto by Luigi Sugana and Giuseppe Pizzolato based on Carlo Goldoni's 18th-century play I rusteghi. The opera is written in Venetian dialect, hence "quatro" instead of "quattro".