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Orefice [Arefece, Orefici], Antonio
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Orefice [Arefece, Orefici], Antonio(fl 1708–34).Italian composer. According to most sources he was trained as a lawyer, but his success as a composer suggests he also received expert instruction in music. His opera Patrò Calienno de la Costa was the first comic opera in Neapolitan dialect performed on a public stage, at the Fiorentini, Naples, on 1 October 1709. Its popularity led the Fiorentini management to promote further operas of this type, some of which were set by Orefice, and the success of these in turn made dialect comic opera as a genre the established form of popular entertainment at the Fiorentini and some other small theatres in Naples. Only one of Orefice’s comic operas, Il gemino amore (1718), is without roles in dialect. On 15 October 1724 his Lo Simmele was the first opera to be performed at the newly opened Teatro Nuovo in Naples. Given Orefice's reputation, which can be gauged from the number of operas he wrote, it is surprising that so little of his music remains. His largest surviving work is the first half of Engelberta, performed at the Neapolitan royal palace just 34 days after the première of Patrò Calienno de la Costa; the closeness of the dates may explain why Orefice did not compose the whole work but only the first half of it (the manuscript score attributes the remainder of the music to Francesco Mancini). Orefice’s music in Engelberta seems to be modelled on that of leading contemporary Neapolitans, including Alessandro Scarlatti. It compares well with Mancini’s contribution from the point of view of technical competence and expressive quality, though Orefice’s style is a little less forceful than Mancini’s. The other remaining operatic music by Orefice is a group of seven arias from his Le fente zingare, the earliest surviving music from any comic opera in Neapolitan dialect (one aria has recently been transcribed and published by Pastore) and an invaluable guide to the development of the musical style adopted by the Neapolitans Vinci and Leo in their dialect operas of the 1720s. According to Prota-Giurleo and Paduano, Anastasio Orefice, perhaps a son or brother of Antonio, had his own opera La Limpia performed in the Teatro Nuovo, Naples, at Carnival 1727; during the same season he was responsible for a revival of Vinci’s Lo cecato fauzo in the Teatro dei Fiorentini. La Limpia was revived as La zingara at the Teatro Fiorentini during Carnival 1728. Anastasio also (according to LaMusicaD) wrote a comic opera La Milla o puro Chi è la primmo vence, performed in Naples in 1726.
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