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Mirandolina
Mirandolina (H. 346) is a comic opera in three acts by Bohuslav Martinů, with a libretto (in Italian) by the composer after Carlo Goldoni's 1751 comedy "La locandiera" ("The Mistress of the Inn"). Salieri had an opera ("dramma giocoso") on the same subject premiered at the Vienna Kärtnertortheater in 1773.
The opera was written in 1953-4. It incorporates in places stretches of spoken dialogue between the characters, against an orchestral background. The opera was
her, but the crafty Mirandolina only accepts the money and jewels, leaving them with an inch of them nose. A third man arrives on the scene: the Knight of Ripafratta (Cavaliere di Ripafratta) extremely misogynist, who thinks that the woman bears only man trouble. Mirandolina, who has never seen a man like that, tries to do it on purpose and the knight manages to fall in love with her.
Cast.
- Claudia Mori as Mirandolina
- Adriano Celentano as Cavaliere di Ripafratta
- Paolo