Falstaff and Il turco in Italia, is which type of dramatic play?
Falstaff (opera) Falstaff (] ) is an opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (18131901). The libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and scenes from "Henry IV", parts "1" and "2". The work premiered on 9 February 1893 at La Scala, Milan.
Melodramma Melodramma (plural: "melodrammi") is a 17th-century Italian term for a text to be set as an opera, or the opera itself. In the 19th-century, it was used in a much narrower sense by English writers to discuss developments in the early Italian libretto, e.g., "Rigoletto" and "Un ballo in maschera". Characteristic are the influence of French bourgeois drama, female instead of male protagonists, and the practice of opening the action with a chorus.