Overview

An opera buffa by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was by Giuseppe Palomba after Carlo Goldoni's play Il matrimonio per concorso of 1763. The opera satirizes the influence of newspapers on people's lives. There is critical disagreement as to its success, although the New England Conservatory's notes for their April 2013 production state that the opera "was an immediate hit, and showed Rossini at his comic best."

Top Cast

C

Cinzia Forte

Lisetta

Bruno Praticò

Don Pomponio

P

Pietro Spagnoli

Filippo

Charles Workman

Alberto

A

Agata Bienkowska

Madame La Rose

M

Marisa Martins

Doralice

S

Simón Orfila

Monsu Traversen

M

Marc Canturri

Anselmo