L'Impresario in Angustie ou Le Directeur dans L'Embarras, Opera Bouffon en Deux Actes

Paris: Chez le Sr. Sieber Musicien. [ca. 1793]. Paroles françaises par Mr D[iodati]. Upright 4to. 214 pp. Engraved. [PN] 1051. Signed by the publisher. Green leather binding, with impressed gilt title on front and spine, some worming wear to front joint and spine extremities, else fine. Internally very good, with some scattered light foxing, one page torn in the margin but otherwise fine. RISM C 2279.


L'impresario in angustie is an operatic farsa in one act. The opera premiered at the Teatro Nuovo in Naples, Italy in 1786.


Domenico Cimarosa was a phenomenally successful composer and probably the most famous Italian composer of the second half of the eighteenth century. Between 1772 and his death he wrote 65 operas, many of which enjoyed tremendous acclaim during his lifetime. Haydn is known to have conducted performances of thirteen of them at Eszterháza – several of them more than once. Both Eugène Delacroix and Stendhal compared Cimarosa’s operas very favourably with Mozart’s. Goethe was also an admirer and in 1797 introduced L’impresario in angustie to the court theatre in Weimar. This was in his own specially-prepared German version with some numbers from Mozart’s Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario) spliced in. (6950)

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