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Armida was soon followed by Salieri's first truly popular success ; a commedia per musica in the style of Carlo Goldoni La fiera di Venezia ( The Fair of Venice ).
La fiera was written for Carnival in 1772 and premiered on 29 January.
Here Salieri returned to his collaboration with the young Boccherini who crafted an original plot.
La fiera would feature characters singing in three languages, a bustling portrayal of the Ascension-tide Fair and Carnival in Venice, and large and lengthy ensembles and choruses.
It also included an innovative scene that would combine a series of on stage dances with singing from both solo protagonists and the chorus.
A pattern to be imitated by later composers, most famously and successfully by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Don Giovanni.
Salieri would also write several bravura aria's for a soprano playing the part of a middle class character that would combine coloratura and concertante woodwind solos, another innovation for a comic opera that was to be widely imitated.

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