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One of the few operas of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 -1736) which has remained in opera companies' repertories, is cast in the 'opera buffa' form common in the period: an elderly bachelor is sick of his bossy though personable maidservant. He tries to throw off her yoke through marriage, but when Serpina pretends that she is also going to marry (and that with a wild warrior who will certainly be a tyrant to her, and who as it happens is no other than the lootman in disguise) he is so distressed that he is ready to offer 'the poor girl' his own hand in marriage. Although the work is musically a mere nothing and comparison with the greatest opera buffa composer, W. A. Mozart, must be limited to a minimal biographical note - both enjoyed a short life and ended it in a mass grave - Brunner's show visually resembles nothing so much as some delicious gateau, loaded with all kinds of sweet meats and comparable to a long lasting Mozart-Kugel.
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Frank van Rossum
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Scenario: Daniel Jouanisson, Didier Brunner, Camera: Georges Barsky,
Lights: Roland Bataille, Christian Nuz, Alain Paillet,
Editing: Chantal Colibert,
Effects: Yves Cremer,
Sound: Yves Fromoneaux, René Foissac,
Music: Giovanni Battisa Pergolesi/Ensemble Baroque de Limoges conducted by Jean Michel Hassler,
Sound mixing: Jean Chatauret,
Set design: Sabine Porada, Michel Bret, Agnés Wichegrod,
Costumes: Christian Lacroix,
Production: E1c, ARCIMA, Polygone, Frank van Rossum, Midi Pyrénées, Le Carrefour de la Communication,
With: Federico Davia, Valérie Chevalier, Philippe Pilion
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