FULL La serva padrona (Pergolesi) St.Petersburg 2023 Suren Platonov, Sofia Vozzova, Zhao Ikai

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: La serva padrona   
• Composer: Pergolesi Giovanni Battista  
• Libretto: Gennaro Antonio Federico    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Shuvalov House Living Room by Gnessin Russian Academy of Music, St.Petersburg, Russia  
• Recorded: May 22, 2023
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Suren Platonov, Sofia Vozzova, Zhao Ikai
• Conductor: Georgy Vasiliev  
• Orchestra: String Quartet of the Opera Theater-Studio of the Russian Academy of Music. Gnesins named after Yu.A. Speransky  
• Stage Director: Yulia Rogulina  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

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.

Federico’s libretto was also set by Giovanni Paisiello, in 1781.