Organization

Chanteur

Soprano

Alize Francheska Rozsnyai

Serpina

Basse

Jake Stamatis

Uberto

Direction d'orchestre

Benjamin T Berman

Mise en scène

Anna Stefanelli

Stage Manager

Maria Balboa

violin

Dezheng Ping

Samantha Tomblin

viola

Marjorie Selden

cello

Aimee Nishimura

Harpsichord

Kate Lim

Hub City Opera and Dance Company

La serva padrona -  (La Servante maîtresse)

New Jersey

États-Unis

Avenel Performing Arts Center

La serva padrona Pergolesi

Public

La Servante maîtresse

Valide

This is an entertaining story of Serpina (La serva), a smart young woman who has taken care of her guardian, Umberto, more than he has taken care of her. “La serva” (Italian for servant) is really “la padrona” (the head of the household). Umberto is looking to marry but is blind to Serpina's affection. Through a series of comic developments, Serpina triumphs. Guess who is surprised at the end.
La Serva Padrona is based on a libretto by Gennaro Antonio Federico. The characters in the opera echo the familiar stock characters of the Italian commedia dell'arte. La Serva Padrona was hugely popular and instrumental in establishing Italian comic opera as an international presence in the eighteenth century. The opera was so impactful in Paris that it triggered a major controversy.

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) was born in Jesi, in the Province of Ancona. A violinist and organist, he studied in Naples under Gaetano Greco and Francesco Feo. In his short life he composed two of the most enduring masterpieces of western Classical music: Stabat Mater and La serva padrona. Pergolesi lived at a time of rapidly changing public taste. His setting of Stabat Mater was commissioned by the Confraternità dei Cavalieri di San Luigi di Palazzo, to replace one by Scarlatti which, though it was only written 9 years earlier, was deemed “old-fashioned.” Youthful and innovative, Pergolesi was among the creators of a style of drama called opera buffa, which rapidly spread throughout Europe and even caused a philosophical pamphlet war in Paris which has become known as the Querelle des bouffons.

La serva padrona is an opera buffa, originally intended as an intermezzo to come between acts of a larger work. It is comprised of arias and duets, punctuated by recitatives. The function of recitative in Italian opera is to move forward the plot, as opposed to arias, which serve to display the inner world of the characters. Even so, musical language in Pergolesi’s recitative constructs an emotional landscape for a character.

English

La Servante maîtresse by Pergolesi, Du (2022/2022), Dirigé par Anna Stefanelli,, Chef d'orchestre Benjamin T Berman, Avenel Performing Arts Center, New Jersey, États-Unis

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