Il barbiere di Siviglia
Comic opera based on Beaumarchais’s play Le Barbier de Séville; this entry does not supply a plot summary.
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Comic opera based on Beaumarchais’s play Le Barbier de Séville; this entry does not supply a plot summary.
Curious Marchese Calandrano, betrothed to Clorinda, asks Count Ripaverde to test her fidelity. Ripaverde and Clorinda fall in love; Aurelio consoles Calandrano’s niece Emilia and they fall in love, as do maid Serpina and steward Prospero. Three couples celebrate together, while Calandrano is left without a fiancée.
Don Calandrino, son of the podestà of Monte Secco, pretends to know everything but cannot reason well. Livietta, a wealthy peasant girl, tries to behave like a lady; Monsieur Le Blonde boasts of places he does not know; and Irene is simple and humble. After various turns, Don Calandrino pairs with Livietta, while Le Blonde pairs with Irene.
At Madama Brillante’s London inn, the guests include a homesick Neapolitan, a Dutch merchant and an English lord. Livia, an Italian woman who has disguised her origins, has been jilted by the lord, while both the innkeeper and Polidoro pursue her; a day of misunderstandings involving a stone said to grant invisibility ends happily.
An opera by Pasquale Anfossi to the libretto commonly attributed to Giuseppe Petrosellini, though another attribution is reported. This is Anfossi’s setting, distinct from Mozart’s later opera to the same libretto. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
The Marchioness Violante, presumed dead after Belfiore stabbed her, hides as the gardener Sandrina with her servant Roberto. At Don Anchise’s estate she encounters Belfiore, now engaged to Arminda. After Arminda abducts her, Violante and Belfiore lose their senses, then recover and reunite; Arminda returns to Ramiro and Roberto pairs with Serpetta.
Comic opera based on Beaumarchais’s play Le Barbier de Séville; this entry does not supply a plot summary.
Curious Marchese Calandrano, betrothed to Clorinda, asks Count Ripaverde to test her fidelity. Ripaverde and Clorinda fall in love; Aurelio consoles Calandrano’s niece Emilia and they fall in love, as do maid Serpina and steward Prospero. Three couples celebrate together, while Calandrano is left without a fiancée.
Don Calandrino, son of the podestà of Monte Secco, pretends to know everything but cannot reason well. Livietta, a wealthy peasant girl, tries to behave like a lady; Monsieur Le Blonde boasts of places he does not know; and Irene is simple and humble. After various turns, Don Calandrino pairs with Livietta, while Le Blonde pairs with Irene.
At Madama Brillante’s London inn, the guests include a homesick Neapolitan, a Dutch merchant and an English lord. Livia, an Italian woman who has disguised her origins, has been jilted by the lord, while both the innkeeper and Polidoro pursue her; a day of misunderstandings involving a stone said to grant invisibility ends happily.
An opera by Pasquale Anfossi to the libretto commonly attributed to Giuseppe Petrosellini, though another attribution is reported. This is Anfossi’s setting, distinct from Mozart’s later opera to the same libretto. No plot description is available in the reviewed text.
The Marchioness Violante, presumed dead after Belfiore stabbed her, hides as the gardener Sandrina with her servant Roberto. At Don Anchise’s estate she encounters Belfiore, now engaged to Arminda. After Arminda abducts her, Violante and Belfiore lose their senses, then recover and reunite; Arminda returns to Ramiro and Roberto pairs with Serpetta.