Pergolesi / 1932

Nel 1736 Giovan Battista Pergolesi si innamora di una ragazza di famiglia nobile ma il fratello di lei si oppone alla loro unione considerando il musicista di modeste capacità musicali e bassa condizione sociale. Gli innamorati decidono di fuggire. Scoperti, la fanciulla viene segregata nel castello di famiglia e Pergolesi distrutto dal dolore si chiude in un monastero di Napoli, dove morirà.

Pergolesi: Adriano In Siria / 2011

For the festivities marking the Pergolesi's tercentenary in his native Jesi, Ignacio García created a new staging of the imperial drama Adriano in Siria. His staging in Jesi's exquisite 18th-century Teatro Comunale Pergolesi includes the delightful comic intermezzo Livietta e Tracollo, thus following the precedent set at the premiere in 1734. A fine Italian cast and the distinguished Accademia Bizantina are led by the Accademia's director, Ottavio Dantone.

Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona / 2008

La serva padrona, or The Maid Turned Mistress, is a 1733 intermezzo by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736) to a libretto by Gennaro Federico, after the play by Jacopo Angello Nelli. It is some 40 minutes long, in two parts without overture, and was written as light-hearted staged entertainment between the acts of Pergolesi's serious opera Il prigionier superbo. More specifically each of the two parts, set in the same dressing room, played during an intermission of the three-act opera to amuse people who remained in their seats.

Pergolesi: Livietta e Tracollo / La serva padrona / 1986

Premiered in 1733, Pergolesi's La Serva Pedrona is a Major event in the history of opera. Due to the lightheatedness of the plot and the ordinariness of the characters – not to say their coarseness – La Serva Pedrona launched what is known today as "the Quarrel of the Comic Actors" ("la Querelle des Bouffons" in French), a quarrel that brought into conflict the advocates of the French tradition against the proponents of the Italian music, the latter gathered behing the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. If what they were fighting about seems trifling to the modern observer, the quarrel occasioned fierce reactions wavering between jingoistic arguements and unjustified critics of the French style. Be that as it may, La Serva Pedrona is a masterpiece, all the more so with the charmismatic Donato Di Stefano in the role of Uberto and the delightfull Patrizia Biccirè giving life to the mischievous Serpina.

Pergolesi - La Serva Padrona December 28, 2020 /

Pergolesi Il Prigionier Superbo December 28, 2020 /

Lo frate 'nnamorato / 1989

Live from La Scala Friday 22 December 1989