Définir la crise de l’opera buffa : le cas Michele Perrin

Abstract

Michele Perrin, first performed at the Teatro Filodrammatici in Milan on 7 May 1864, is an opera buffa by Antonio Cagnoni with a libretto by Marco Marcelliano Marcello. Its musico-dramatic content and critical reception present the potential of crisis as a positive and creative disruption of established norms in the authors’ (largely unsuccessful) attempt to reform the opera buffa genre.