Extraordinary. Excellently written and excellently performed. L'opera serie - an very dense aesthetic jet, bearer of multiple meanings. A first layer of meaning - distortions that characterize the theatrical environment. On a deeper level, the work stigmatizes with happy irony the shortcomings charms and contradictions of drama for Metastasio opera series music and suggests new formal perspectives and new stylistic measures. "Opera in an opera" about customs and rules in opera production, about prima donnas, their mothers and & (SIC! who participate in making the opera), about the number of arias they will sing, etc. Thanks to Rene Jacobs - saved from oblivion - very important opera by the imperial composer Gassmann - as part of the Schwetzingen festival of 1994; then revived the show in Paris in 2003...
This is phenomenal opera great music great arias superb performance and funny too at points...Great stuff never knew this work or the composer thank you
