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{{Short description|Opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari}}
{{Infobox opera
| name              = Le donne curiose
| composer          = [[Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari]]
| image             = Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari 1906.jpg
| image_upright     = 
| caption           = The composer in 1906
| translated_name   = ''The Inquisitive Women''
| librettist        = {{ill|Luigi Sugana|it}}
| language          = Italian
| based_on          = {{based on|{{ill|Le donne curiose (play)|it|Le donne curiose|lt=''Le donne curiose''}}|[[Carlo Goldoni]]}}
| premiere_date     = {{Start date|1903|11|27|df=y}} {{nowrap|(in German)}}
| premiere_location = [[National Theatre Munich|Hoftheater]], Munich
}}
'''''Le donne curiose''''' (English: ''The Inquisitive Women'') is an [[opera]] in three acts by [[Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari]] to a text by {{ill|Luigi Sugana|it}} after [[Carlo Goldoni]]'s play {{ill|Le donne curiose (play)|it|Le donne curiose|lt=of the same name}}.

==Performance history==
The first dramatic work by Wolf-Ferrari to achieve more than local notice, it was first performed in Munich on 27 November 1903 in a German translation as ''Die neugierigen Frauen''. The first performance in Italian was at the [[Metropolitan Opera House (39th Street)|old Metropolitan Opera House]] in New York on 3 January 1912 with a cast led by [[Arturo Toscanini]], including [[Geraldine Farrar]] and [[Hermann Jadlowker]]. [[Tullio Serafin]] conducted the first performance in Milan on 16 January 1913.

==Roles==
[[File:Wolf-Ferrari - Le donne curiose - Geraldine Farrar and Hermann Jadlowker as Rosaura and Florindo - White - The Victrola book of the opera.jpg|thumb|Geraldine Farrar and Hermann Jadlowker as Rosaura and Florindo]]
[[File:Wolf-Ferrari - Le donne curiose, act III - Scene - White, N. Y. - The Victrola book of the opera.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|Scene from act 3]]
{{stack|[[File:Wolf-Ferrari - Le donne curiose, act I - The club - White - The Victrola book of the opera.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|The men at their club, act 1]]}}
{| class="wikitable" 
|+{{sronly|Roles, voice types, premiere casts}}
!Role
![[Voice type]]
!Premiere cast, 27 November 1903<ref>{{Almanacco|dmy=27-11-1903|match=Le donne curiose}} (gives Hugo Josef Rheinberger as conductor)</ref><br>Conductor: [[Hugo Reichenberger]]
!First performance in Italian,<br>3 January 1912<ref>{{Almanacco|dmy=03-01-1912|match=Le donne curiose}}</ref><br>Conductor: [[Arturo Toscanini]]
|-
|Arlecchino 
|[[bass (voice type)|bass]]
|Georg Sieglitz
|[[Antonio Scotti]]
|-	
|Beatrice 
|[[mezzo-soprano]]
|[[Charlotte Huhn]]
|[[Rita Fornia]]
|-
|Colombina 
|[[soprano]]
|[[Hermine Bosetti]]
|[[Geraldine Farrar]]
|-
|Florindo 
|[[tenor]]	
|Hans Koppe
|[[Hermann Jadlowker]]
|-
|Leandro 
|tenor	
|[[Hans Breuer (tenor)|Hans Breuer]] 
|[[Jeanne Maubourg]]
|-
|Lelio 
|[[baritone]]
|
|Andres de Segurola
|-
|Ottavio 
|bass
|[[Paul Bender (bass)|Paul Bender]]
|[[Adam Didur]]	
|-
|Pantalone 
|baritone
|[[Friedrich Brodersen]]
|[[Antonio Pini-Corsi]]	
|-
|Rosaura 
|soprano
|Ella Tordek
|[[Bella Alten]]
|-	
|Lunardo
|bass	
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|Mènego 
|bass
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|-
|Mómolo 
|bass
|
|	
|-
|Eleonora 
|soprano
|
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|-
|Asdrubale 
|tenor
|
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|-
|Almorò 
|tenor
|
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|-
|Alvise 
|tenor
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|-
|First gondolier 
|tenor	 
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|-
|Second gondolier 
|bass
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|-
|}

==Synopsis==
The story is a comedy set in 18th-century Venice about two wives checking up on the goings-on at their husband's club.

==Notes==
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==References==
*[[Warrack, John]] and West, Ewan (1992), ''The Oxford Dictionary of Opera'', 782 pages,  {{ISBN|0-19-869164-5}}
*{{Cite Americana|wstitle=Inquisitive Women|author=Lewis M. Isaacs|display=''Inquisitive Women''|ref=none}}

==External links==
* {{Commons category-inline|Le donne curiose}}
* {{IMSLP|work=Le donne curiose (Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno)|cname=''Le donne curiose'' (Wolf-Ferrari)}}
* [https://opera-guide.ch/operas/le+donne+curiose/ Work details], opera-guide.ch

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