L'oca del Cairo

About the show

Marquess Don Pippo keeps his daughter Celidora confined in a tower. She is promised to Count Lionetto but loves Biondello. Biondello wagers that he can rescue her within a year and get her hand in marriage. He is smuggled into the tower garden inside a large mechanical goose and succeeds. Mozart’s musical setting is incomplete, though Varesco’s full libretto survives.