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Harlequin (/ ˈ h ɑːr l ə k w ɪ n /, Italian: Arlecchino, Italian: [arlekˈkiːno]; Lombard: Arlechin, Lombard:) is the best-known of the comic servant characters from the Italian commedia dell'arte, associated with the city of Bergamo.
Arlecchino, oder Die Fenster (Harlequin, or The Windows, BV 270) is a one-act opera with spoken dialog by Ferruccio Busoni, with a libretto in German, composed in 1913.He completed the music for the opera while living in Zurich in 1916.
The play opens with the engagement party between Clarice and Silvio, the daughter and son of Pantaloon (also spelled Pantalone) and Doctor Lombardi respectively. However, their celebration is cut short by the arrival of the exceptionally quirky and comical Harlequin (known in English also as Truffaldino, which can be translated into English as Fraudolent), the servant of Clarice's supposedly ...
Alichino's name is commonly regarded as a garbled version of the Italian word for harlequin, Arlecchino, perhaps for his flying attempt to catch Ciampolo of Navarre in his escape (see picture). His only significant contribution to the plot is when he persuades the other devils to leave Ciampolo of Navarre alone.
Detail from Portrait of an Actor by Domenico Fetti (c. 1621 –1622, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg), identified as Tristano Martinelli or Francesco Andreini. Tristano Martinelli (c. 1556 – 1630), [1] called Dominus Arlecchinorum, [2] the "Master of Harlequins", was an Italian actor in the commedia dell'arte tradition.
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In English versions, harlequinades differed in two important respects from the commedia original. First, instead of being a rogue, Harlequin became the central figure and romantic lead. [ 2 ] Secondly, the characters did not speak; this was because of the large number of French performers who played in London, following the suppression of ...
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