Gluck's rival.
153. Roland / Iphigénie en Tauride (Piccinni)
Category: Italian opera
152. La scuola de’ gelosi (Salieri)
Meet the man who didn't murder Mozart.
147. Eliogabalo (Cavalli)
Where is the black stone of Emesa?
146. Mitridate, re di Ponto (Mozart)
Mozart's first opera seria. Don't judge the genre by this!
33. Orfeo ed Euridice / Orphée et Eurydice (Gluck)
In which Gluck reforms opera with a prehistoric sun-myth.
131. Artaserse (Vinci)
Five countertenors and a tenor in an opera seria masterpiece!
128. La serva padrona (Pergolesi)
Intermezzo in 2 partsComposer: Giovanni Battista PergolesiLibretto: Gennarantonio FedericoFirst performed: Teatro San Bartolomeo, Naples, 28 August 1733 For a comic interlude of 45 minutes, La serva padrona carries a lot of weight on her slim shoulders. She’s the ancestrix of both the Italian opera buffa and the French opéra comique. The wily maidservant Serpina (little … Continue reading 128. La serva padrona (Pergolesi)
