Tutti in maschera

Tutti in maschera (Everyone in Disguise) is an opera (called a commedia lirica) by Carlo Pedrotti. The libretto is by Marco Marcelliano Marcello, based on the 1759 comedy L'impresario delle Smirne by Carlo Goldoni. It was premiered at the Teatro Nuovo, Verona, on 4 November 1856.

Tutti in maschera was the twelfth of Pedrotti's eighteen operas and the tenth to be staged (the first two were never performed). Five of the previous eleven were opere serie (serious operas) and five were opere semiserie (operas combining drama and comedy). Only one, the one-act Il parrucchiere della reggenza (The hairdresser of the Regency) of 1852 was designated as a comic opera.

After the premiere, Tutti in maschera was seen in Italy at the Teatro Regio di Parma in 1859, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna in 1860, the Teatro della Canobbiana in 1860 (with the famous baritone Antonio Cotogni as Abdalà) and the Teatro Comunale, Catania in 1871. It was also performed in Vienna (1865) and, in French as Les masques, at the Théâtre de l'Athénée on the rue Scribe in Paris in 1869. Its success in Italy also saw it spread to countries where Italian singers and companies dominated; hence it was premiered in Calcutta in 1867, Australia in 1874 and New Zealand in 1875. It was popular within Italy until the end of the nineteenth century, when it began to gradually fall out of favour and, until a recent co-production between theatres in Savona, Piacenza and Rovigo and Wexford Festival Opera in 2007-08, was last heard in Italy in 1932 or in 1935.

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