An opera buffa by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was by Giuseppe Palomba after Carlo Goldoni's play Il matrimonio per concorso of 1763. The opera satirizes the influence of newspapers on people's lives. There is critical disagreement as to its success, although the New England Conservatory's notes for their April 2013 production state that the opera "was an immediate hit, and showed Rossini at his comic best."

Cast

Bruno Praticò

Don Pomponio

Charles Workman

Alberto

Cinzia Forte

Lisetta

Pietro Spagnoli

Filippo

Agata Bienkowska

Madame La Rose

Marisa Martins

Doralice

Simón Orfila

Monsu Traversen

Marc Canturri

Anselmo