L’Italiana in Londra (Cimarosa) Frankfurt 2021 Angela Vallone, Bianca Tognocchi, Theo Lebow, Iurii Samoilov, Gordon Bintner

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: L'Italiana in Londra   
• Composer: Cimarosa Domenico   
• Libretto: Giuseppe Petrosellini    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Oper Frankfrut, Germany  
• Recorded: November 2021
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Angela Vallone, Bianca Tognocchi, Theo Lebow, Iurii Samoilov, Gordon Bintner
• Conductor: Leo Hussain  
• Orchestra: Frankfurter Opern- Und Museumsorchester  
• Stage Director: R.B. Schlather  
• Stage Designer: Paul Steinberg, Paul Costume Designer: Lighting Designer:  
• Costume Designer: Doey Luthi  
• Lighting Designer: Joachim Klein  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Naxos  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: DVD & BD
• Quality Video: 5 Audio:5
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, desubs, itsubs  
• This Recording is NOT AVAILABLE from a proper commercial or public source
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

L’Italiana in Londra (The Italian Girl in London) is one of eight comic operas, termed intermezzi, which Domenico Cimarosa wrote between 1777 and 1784 for the Teatro Valle, a handsome neo-classical Roman theatre built in 1726, which still stands today.

Plot
Staying in a London hostelry run by Madama Brillante are:

a morose English Milord with the unlikely name of Arespingh
a middle-class and eminently sensible Dutch merchant, Sumers
a flamboyant, gullible and homesick Neapolitan, Don Polidoro.
The Italian girl is Livia, who comes from Genoa but claims to be from Marseilles. She has been jilted by Arespingh who is being forced by his father to marry someone else. Meanwhile, Madama Brillante has designs on Polidoro, but Polidoro fancies Livia. The action unfolds through a single day of arguments and misunderstandings, but all is happily resolved by the end.

Part of the plot concerns a magic heliotrope or bloodstone which makes a person invisible, a story Petrosellini derived from a chapter of Boccaccio’s Decameron.

Quoted from Wikipedia