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Boccaccio, oder Der Prinz von Palermo (Boccaccio, or the Prince of Palermo) is an operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé to a German libretto by Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée, based on the play by Jean-François Bayard, Adolphe de Leuven, Léon Lévy Brunswick and Arthur de Beauplan, based in turn on The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. Despite the opera's clear links to the Viennese opera tradition, Suppé's opera takes most of its style from Italian opera. The opera was begun somewhere around the fall of 1878 and first published in 1879 by the August Cranz company and performed at the Carltheater, Vienna, on 1 February 1879. An English translation and adaptation was completed in 1880 by Dexter Smith and later by Oscar Weil and Gustav Hinrichs around 1883. The first contemporary edit of the work occurred in 1950 for the premiere of the work at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, with several more iterations occurring through the 20th century. In 1940, Boccaccio was made into a film by American-born Italian film director Marcello Albani. Performance history Following its premiere in 1883, the opera quickly made its way around the globe.

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Notable quotes

“Se medesimi esaltando con parole da fare per istomacaggine le pietre saltar del muro e fuggirsi.”
— They boosted themselves with such nauseating self-praise as to make the stones jump out of the walls and flee.
“Natural ragione è di ciascuno che ci nasce, la sua vita, quanto può, aiutare e conservare e difendere.”
— Every person born into this world has a natural right to sustain, preserve, and defend his own life to the best of his ability.
“La gente è più acconcia a credere il male che il bene.”
— People are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones.
“Una boccuccia piccolina, le cui labbra parevan due rubinetti.”
— A sweet little mouth with lips like rubies.
“Essere la natura de' motti cotale, che essi come la pecora morde deono cosi mordere l'uditore, e non come 'l cane: percio che, se come cane mordesse il motto, non sarebbe motto, ma villania.”
— The nature of wit is such that its bite must be like that of a sheep rather than a dog, for if it were to bite the listener like a dog, it would no longer be wit but abuse.
“Leggiadre donne, infra molte bianche colombe aggiugne più di bellezza uno nero corvo, che non farebbe un candido cigno.”
— Charming ladies, the beauty of a flock of white doves is better enhanced by a black crow than by a pure white swan.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Notable quotes

“Se medesimi esaltando con parole da fare per istomacaggine le pietre saltar del muro e fuggirsi.”
— They boosted themselves with such nauseating self-praise as to make the stones jump out of the walls and flee.
“Natural ragione è di ciascuno che ci nasce, la sua vita, quanto può, aiutare e conservare e difendere.”
— Every person born into this world has a natural right to sustain, preserve, and defend his own life to the best of his ability.
“La gente è più acconcia a credere il male che il bene.”
— People are more inclined to believe in bad intentions than in good ones.
“Una boccuccia piccolina, le cui labbra parevan due rubinetti.”
— A sweet little mouth with lips like rubies.
“Essere la natura de' motti cotale, che essi come la pecora morde deono cosi mordere l'uditore, e non come 'l cane: percio che, se come cane mordesse il motto, non sarebbe motto, ma villania.”
— The nature of wit is such that its bite must be like that of a sheep rather than a dog, for if it were to bite the listener like a dog, it would no longer be wit but abuse.
“Leggiadre donne, infra molte bianche colombe aggiugne più di bellezza uno nero corvo, che non farebbe un candido cigno.”
— Charming ladies, the beauty of a flock of white doves is better enhanced by a black crow than by a pure white swan.

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Not who you're looking for? Others named Boccaccio: 1940 Italian operetta film directed by Marcello Albani · 1972 film by Bruno Corbucci · crater on Mercury · 1920 film by Michael Curtiz

Overview

Boccaccio, oder Der Prinz von Palermo (Boccaccio, or the Prince of Palermo) is an operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé to a German libretto by Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée, based on the play by Jean-François Bayard, Adolphe de Leuven, Léon Lévy Brunswick and Arthur de Beauplan, based in turn on The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. Despite the opera's clear links to the Viennese opera tradition, Suppé's opera takes most of its style from Italian opera. The opera was begun somewhere around the fall of 1878 and first published in 1879 by the August Cranz company and performed at the Carltheater, Vienna, on 1 February 1879. An English translation and adaptation was completed in 1880 by Dexter Smith and later by Oscar Weil and Gustav Hinrichs around 1883. The first contemporary edit of the work occurred in 1950 for the premiere of the work at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, with several more iterations occurring through the 20th century. In 1940, Boccaccio was made into a film by American-born Italian film director Marcello Albani. Performance history Following its premiere in 1883, the opera quickly made its way around the globe.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Boccaccio, oder Der Prinz von Palermo (Boccaccio, or the Prince of Palermo) is an operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé to a German libretto by Camillo Walzel and Richard Genée, based on the play by Jean-François Bayard, Adolphe de Leuven, Léon Lévy Brunswick and Arthur de Beauplan, based in turn on The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. Despite the opera's clear links to the Viennese opera tradition, Suppé's opera takes most of its style from Italian opera.

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