At The Opera, Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera (The Fake Garden-Girl), March 4, 2023
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La finta giardiniera or The Pretend Garden-Girl, is an Italian-language opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart wrote it in Munich in January 1775 when he was 18 years old and it received its first performance on January 13th at the Salvatortheater in Munich. There is debate over the authorship of the libretto, written for Anfossi's opera the year before. It is often ascribed to Calzabigi, but some musicologists now attribute it to Giuseppe Petrosellini, though again it is questioned whether it is in the latter's style.
The story follows Count Belfiore and the Marchioness Violante Onesti, who were lovers before Belfiore stabbed Violante in a fit of rage. The story begins with the revived Violante and her servant Roberto disguised as "Sandrina" and "Nardo," and quietly working in the mansion of the town Podestà. Violante discovers that Belfiore has become engaged to Arminda, the niece of the Podestà, and when Belfiore confesses his lingering love for Violante, Arminda jealously conspires to abduct the other woman. When Violante is found, she and Belfiore lose their minds and believe themselves to be Greek gods. When they regain their senses Violante forgives the Count and they fly to each other's arms. Arminda returns to Cavalier Ramiro, her spurned suitor, and Roberto finds love with Serpetta, another servant of the Podestà.
Cast
Podesta - Enzio di Cesare
Sandrina - Julia Conwell
Count Belfiore - Thomas Moser
Arminda - Lilian Sukis
Don Ramrio - Brigitte Fassbaender
Leopold Hager - Conductor
Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg
PHILIPS 1981
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