Dramma giocoso in two acts. Libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on Carlo Goldoni's Le bourru bienfaisant. Music by Vicent Martín i Soler. First performed on 4 January 1786 at the Burgtheater in Vienna. 
First performance at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.

This is the first staging at the Gran Teatre del Liceu of Il burbero di buon core (The Good-hearted Curmudgeon), a dramma giocoso by the composer from Valencia Vicent Martín i Soler. The libretto, by the famous Lorenzo Da Ponte, is based on Le bourru bienfaisant (1771), a play written in French by Goldoni. Of the three opere buffe Martín i Soler wrote in Vienna, all in partnership with Da Ponte, this was the first. The others are Una cosa rara ossia bellezza ed onesta (also in1786) and L’arbore di Diana (1787). Martín i Soler embarked on his brilliant career in Naples. He spent several periods at court in Madrid and settled in Vienna in the 1780s. From there was summoned by Catherine II to Saint Petersburg, where he died in 1806. Il burbero di buon cuore was premiered the same year as Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. When both works were revived in Vienna three years later, Mozart wrote new arias for them and the two arias he added to Il burbero have remained in the score. It is a typical comedy of character, tinged with the pathos and sentimentality of the new bourgeois drama. 

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