('The Italian Girl in London')
A comic opera in one act
Libretto attributed to
G. Petrosellini
Music by Cimarosa (revised and edited by Giulio Confalonieri )
(sung in Italian)
Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Milan
Conducted BY ENNIO GERELLI
This amusing work, which brought its composer his first taste of success when it was produced in Rome in 1778, is
' pure burlesque: its two main characters
-an English lord and the girl he left behind him in Italy-guy the throes and transports of the hero and heroine of grand opera. The girl pursues ' Milord ' to London and, after some pseudo-tragic misunderstandings, marries him. It may have been disapproval of such scandalous goings-on concerning an English gentleman that caused those responsible for the first English production (in 1788) to change the title and shift the scene to Amsterdam 1 Deryck Cooke