I giuochi d'Agrigento
Set during athletic games at ancient Agrigento, Giovanni Paisiello’s opera draws in part on Metastasio’s L’Olimpiade. The available text does not provide further plot details.
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Set during athletic games at ancient Agrigento, Giovanni Paisiello’s opera draws in part on Metastasio’s L’Olimpiade. The available text does not provide further plot details.
Comic opera based on Beaumarchais’s play Le Barbier de Séville; this entry does not supply a plot summary.
Giovanni Paisiello’s comic opera with a libretto by Giovanni Battista Casti premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1784.
Nina has lost her reason after her father broke his promise that she could marry Lindoro. When a richer suitor arrived on their wedding day, Lindoro challenged him to a duel and was presumed killed. Nina waits at a crossroads for her lover, while the remorseful Count is tormented by his decision. The Count’s valet later reports that Lindoro is alive and at the castle. Lindoro explains he was wounded and nursed back to health. He and Nina are reunited, and she regains her sanity.
The opera concentrates on Pluto's abduction of Proserpine. Guillard's libretto reduces Quinault's five-act source to three acts and focuses on the main plot.
An English-language comic pasticcio opera set during the Siege of Belgrade, with Turkish forces, an Austrian commander and Serbian villagers among its characters. Its plot is not summarized here.
Set during athletic games at ancient Agrigento, Giovanni Paisiello’s opera draws in part on Metastasio’s L’Olimpiade. The available text does not provide further plot details.
Comic opera based on Beaumarchais’s play Le Barbier de Séville; this entry does not supply a plot summary.
Giovanni Paisiello’s comic opera with a libretto by Giovanni Battista Casti premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna in 1784.
Nina has lost her reason after her father broke his promise that she could marry Lindoro. When a richer suitor arrived on their wedding day, Lindoro challenged him to a duel and was presumed killed. Nina waits at a crossroads for her lover, while the remorseful Count is tormented by his decision. The Count’s valet later reports that Lindoro is alive and at the castle. Lindoro explains he was wounded and nursed back to health. He and Nina are reunited, and she regains her sanity.
The opera concentrates on Pluto's abduction of Proserpine. Guillard's libretto reduces Quinault's five-act source to three acts and focuses on the main plot.
An English-language comic pasticcio opera set during the Siege of Belgrade, with Turkish forces, an Austrian commander and Serbian villagers among its characters. Its plot is not summarized here.