Il re Teodoro in Venezia
Giovanni Paisiello’s comic opera with a libretto by Giovanni Battista Casti premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1784.
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Giovanni Paisiello’s comic opera with a libretto by Giovanni Battista Casti premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1784.
Two sisters love two friends with contrasting temperaments. The magician Trofonio invites the pairs into his cave, where he reverses their personalities, first the men’s and then the women’s; the confusion is eventually resolved happily.
A composer has completed music for a new opera, but its poet cannot finish the words. Their work is disrupted by a prima donna and a comic singer competing for the opening aria; the composer and poet resolve the quarrel by combining seria and buffa styles.
Giovanni Paisiello’s comic opera with a libretto by Giovanni Battista Casti premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1784.
Two sisters love two friends with contrasting temperaments. The magician Trofonio invites the pairs into his cave, where he reverses their personalities, first the men’s and then the women’s; the confusion is eventually resolved happily.
A composer has completed music for a new opera, but its poet cannot finish the words. Their work is disrupted by a prima donna and a comic singer competing for the opening aria; the composer and poet resolve the quarrel by combining seria and buffa styles.