Domenico Cimarosa was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School and of the Classical period. He wrote more than eighty operas, the best known of which is Il matrimonio segreto ; most of his operas
Cimarosa as a child
Cimarosa composing
Palazzo Duodo, Campo Sant'Angelo, Venice, Cimarosa's last home, where he died
Il matrimonio segreto is a dramma giocoso in two acts, music by Domenico Cimarosa, on a libretto by Giovanni Bertati, based on the 1766 play The Clandestine Marriage by George Colman the Elder and Dav