La capricciosa corretta
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La capricciosa corretta is a comic opera in two acts composed by Vicente Martín y Soler. The libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte is based on the comedy La moglie in calzoni from 1728 by Jacopo Angelo Nelli.
Vicente Martín y Soler
Lorenzo Da Ponte in old age (detail from a portrait attributed to Samuel Morse)
Anna Morichelli who created the role of Ciprigna, the "capricious woman" of the opera's title
Cover of the score for Ciprigna's Act 1 aria "Guardami un poco da capo a piedi" (Look at me a bit from head to toe), published in Naples c. 1798
L'arbore di Diana
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L'arbore di Diana is an opera in two acts composed by Vicente Martín y Soler, with an original libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte. It premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna on 1 October 1787.
La capricciosa corretta
…the fourth of Martín y Soler's five collaborations with Lorenzo Da Ponte. The first three—Il burbero di buon cuore (1786), Una cosa rara (1786), and L'arbore di Diana (1787)—were premiered at the Burgtheater in Vienna, where Da Ponte had been the poet to the imperial theatres of Emperor Joseph II since 1783. After…
Laura Aikin (Diana). A scene from the 2009 production of the opera at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona