Name: La serva padrona
Start: 1996-11-12T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1996-11-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: La Monnaie

Organization

Direction d'orchestre

Sigiswald Kuijken

Mise en scène

Ferruccio Soleri

Décors

Luisa Spinatelli

Costumes

Chanteur

Basse

Donato Di Stefano

Uberto

Soprano

Patrizia Biccirè

Serpina

La Monnaie/De Munt

La serva padrona -  (La Servante maîtresse)

Bruxelles

Belgique

La Monnaie

Grande Salle

Donato Di Stefano and Patrizia Biccirè in Ferruccio Soleri's production of Pergolesi's La Serva Pedrona.

Premiered in 1733, Pergolesi's La Serva Pedrona is a Major event in the history of opera. Due to the lightheatedness of the plot and the ordinariness of the characters – not to say their coarseness – La Serva Pedrona launched what is known today as "the Quarrel of the Comic Actors" ("la Querelle des Bouffons" in French), a quarrel that brought into conflict the advocates of the French tradition against the proponents of the Italian music, the latter gathered behing the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. If what they were fighting about seems trifling to the modern observer, the quarrel occasioned fierce reactions wavering between jingoistic arguements and unjustified critics of the French style. Be that as it may, La Serva Pedrona is a masterpiece, all the more so with the charmismatic Donato Di Stefano in the role of Uberto and the delightfull Patrizia Biccirè giving life to the mischievous Serpina.

Argument
Uberto, an elderly bachelor, is complaining about his servant's arrogance. Indeed, Serpina hasn't prepared his chocolate, she refuses to bring him his coat, wig and hat, she forbids him to leave the house. Thereupon, Uberto asks his valet Vespone to find him a woman to marry in order to get rid of the cheeky Serpina. But Serpina has more than one trick up her sleeves, and she decides to trick Uberto into marrying her. She pretends thus that she is about to getting married to a military man, Tempesta. Vespone comes in, desguised as Tempesta, and asks straight out for a 4,000-crown dowry. Tempesta threatens the old man to either pay or marry the girl himself. Realizing that he has always loved his servant, Uberto accepts to marry Serpina. Serpina will eventually be the true mistress of the household.

La serva padrona

Public

La Servante maîtresse

Valide

Accordionist

Instrument

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Continuo

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Acteur

Autre

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choeur

Chorus Director

Chorégraphie

Coach vocal

Coiffure

Compositeur

Danse

Diffusion

Direction de choeur

Dramaturgie

En charge de la production

Extra

Illustrator

Livret

Lumières

Maquillage

Orchestra Operations

Orchestre

Photographer

Poet

Prof

Répétiteur

Stage Manager

Traduction

Video

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Ténor

Baryton-basse

Mezzo-soprano

Contre-ténor

Baryton

Contralto

Alto

Rôle muet

Rôle parlant

Voix d'enfant

La Servante maîtresse by Pergolesi, mer. 13 nov. 1996, Du (1996/1996), Dirigé par Ferruccio Soleri,, Chef d'orchestre Sigiswald Kuijken, La Monnaie, Bruxelles, Belgique

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