# Pimpinone

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{{Infobox opera 
| name              = Pimpinone
| genre_header      = [Comic opera](/source/Comic_opera)
| composer          = [Georg Philipp Telemann](/source/Georg_Philipp_Telemann)
| image             = Georg Philipp Telemann by Georg Lichtensteger.jpg
| image_upright     = 1.2
| caption           = The composer, c. 1745
| other_name        = ''Die Ungleiche Heirat zwischen Vespetta und Pimpinone oder Das herrsch-süchtige Camer Mägden''
| translated_name   = The Unequal Marriage Between Vespetta and Pimpinone or The Domineering Chambermaid
| librettist        = Johann Philipp Praetorius
| language          = German
| based_on          = 
| premiere_date     = {{Start date|1725|09|27|df=y}}
| premiere_location = {{nowrap|[Oper am Gänsemarkt](/source/Oper_am_G%C3%A4nsemarkt)}}, Hamburg
}}
'''''Pimpinone''''', [TWV](/source/Telemann-Werke-Verzeichnis) 21:15, is a [comic opera](/source/comic_opera) by the German composer [Georg Philipp Telemann](/source/Georg_Philipp_Telemann) with a [libretto](/source/libretto) by Johann Philipp Praetorius. Its full title is ''Die Ungleiche Heirat zwischen Vespetta und Pimpinone oder Das herrsch-süchtige Camer Mägden'' (''The Unequal Marriage Between Vespetta and Pimpinone or The Domineering Chambermaid''). The work is described as a ''Lustiges [Zwischenspiel](/source/Zwischenspiel)'' ("comic [intermezzo](/source/intermezzo)") in three parts. It was first performed at the [Oper am Gänsemarkt](/source/Oper_am_G%C3%A4nsemarkt) in [Hamburg](/source/Hamburg) on 27 September [1725](/source/1725_in_music) as light relief between the acts of Telemann's adaptation of [Handel](/source/George_Frideric_Handel)'s [opera seria](/source/opera_seria) ''[Tamerlano](/source/Tamerlano)''. ''Pimpinone'' was highly successful and pointed the way forward to later intermezzi, particularly [Giovanni Battista Pergolesi](/source/Giovanni_Battista_Pergolesi)'s ''[La serva padrona](/source/La_serva_padrona)''. 
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==Roles==
{| class="wikitable"
|+{{sronly|Roles, voice types, premier cast}}
!Cast
![Voice type](/source/Voice_type)
!Premiere cast
|-
|Pimpinone
|[bass](/source/bass_(voice_type))
|Johann Gottfried Riemschneider 
|-
|Vespetta
|[soprano](/source/soprano)
|Margaretha Susanna Kayser 
|}

==Plot==
Vespetta the chambermaid wheedles her way into marrying her employer, old Pimpinone. Once married she shows her waspish nature (the name Vespetta means "little wasp") and completely dominates her husband.

==Recordings==
*''Pimpinone'', [Mechthild Bach](/source/Mechthild_Bach), [Michael Schopper](/source/Michael_Schopper), La Stagione, conducted by [Michael Schneider](/source/Michael_Schneider_(conductor)) ([Deutsche Harmonia Mundi](/source/Deutsche_Harmonia_Mundi), 1993)
*''Pimpinone oder Die ungleiche Heirat'', Erna Roscher, [Reiner Süß](/source/Reiner_S%C3%BC%C3%9F), [Staatskapelle Berlin](/source/Staatskapelle_Berlin), conducted by [Helmut Koch](/source/Helmut_Koch_(conductor)) (Berlin Classics)
*''Pimpinone'', [Yvonne Ciannella](/source/Yvonne_Ciannella), [Erich Wenk](/source/Erich_Wenk), [Bach-Collegium Stuttgart](/source/Bach-Collegium_Stuttgart), conducted by [Helmuth Rilling](/source/Helmuth_Rilling) (Turnabout TV 34124S  stereo, 1967)

==Sources==
*''The Viking Opera Guide'' ed. [Amanda Holden](/source/Amanda_Holden_(writer)) (Viking, 1993)
*[http://pagesperso-orange.fr/jean-claude.brenac/TELEMANN_PIMPINONE.htm ''Magazine de l'opéra baroque''] {{in lang|fr}}

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