Leader, Laurance Turner
Conductor, Gideon Fagan
Mozart was only twelve years old when he composed his three-act opera buffa La Finta Semplice. It followed immediately his popular one-act operetta Bastien and Bastienne, but was never performed. The overture was not actually composed for the opera. It is a modified version of the Symphony in D (K.45), which was written earlier in the year (1768) and was later adapted.