La fiera di Venezia
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La fiera di Venezia is an opera buffa, described as a commedia per musica, by Antonio Salieri, set to an itallian libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini.
[edit] Performance history
The opera premiered with great success on January 29, 1772 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Austria.[1] La fiera di Venezia turned out to be one of Salieri's best regarded works and during his lifetime was staged more than thirty times throughout Europe. [2]