MDDM23: Galuppi's Margherita e Don Aldo

[Dave Monroe]

   "'So it is that I now commission you, to go to my
Creator, and pray upon my behalf his Permission, to
take this very Duck out for the evening,-- I have
tickets to the Opera,-- 'tis Galuppi's Margherita e
Don Aldo.'" (M&D, Ch. 37, p. 377)

   "'Details for you to work out.  In Italian opera,
the young Soprano's Guardian may always be deceiv'd.' 
The Duck flapp'd its Wings, rose in the Air, and with
a Hum, singing a few bars of 'Calmati, Mio Don Aldo
irascibile,' crank'd up to speed and vanish'd." (M&D,
Ch. 37, p. 377)

Galuppi ...

"Baldassare Galuppi was born on October 18, 1706 in
Burano . His nickname 'Il Buranello' derives from his
place of birth. Galuppi was introduced to music by his
father, a barber (like Antonio Vivaldi), who played
the violin in small orchestras providing entr'acte
music in Venetian theatres of spoken comedy...."

http://www.multimania.com/galuppi/eng/galuppi_eng.html

Robert Browning, "A Toccata of Galuppi's" (1855)

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/browning8.html

http://www.utm.edu/research/nvsa/browning/galuppi.html

But I can't find a Margherita e Don Aldo by him ...

http://www.operone.de/komponist/galuppi.html

However, given that marguerite = daisy ...

Main Entry: mar·gue·rite 
Pronunciation: "mär-g&-'rEt, -gy&-
Function: noun
Etymology: French, from Middle French margarite pearl,
daisy -- more at MARGARITE
Date: circa 1866
1 : DAISY 1b
2 : any of various single-flowered chrysanthemums;
especially : a chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum
frutescens) of the Canary Islands 

http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

Then Margherita e Don Aldo = ...

http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/chars/daisy.html

http://stp.ling.uu.se/~starback/dcml/chars/donald.html

"Calmati, Mio Don Aldo irascibile," i.e., "Calm, My
Irascible Donald" seems appropriate.  Reminds me ...

Dorfman, Ariel and Armand Mattelart.
   How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology
   in the Disney Comic.  Trans. David Kunzle.
   New York: International General, 1991 [1971].

And will be back on "Italian Opera" (not to mention
"French Tragedy"), though if anyone has any
particularly information, interest ...


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