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A forgotten meta-opera at La Scala: Gassmann’s L’opera seria

By Laura Servidei, 29 March 2025

Christophe Rousset leads a great cast and an even greater orchestra in Gassmann’s 1769 rarity in Laurent Pelly’s visually striking, but oddly subdued, take on a comedy that thrives on chaos.

***11

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***11

Milan

31 Mar 2025

A forgotten meta-opera at La Scala: Gassmann’s L’opera seria

By Laura Servidei

Vienna

The pleasure of parody: delightful Opera seria at Wolf Trap

By Hilary Stroh, 15 July 2016

2016 Filene Young Artists give outstanding performance in Gassmann's Opera Seria.

*****

*****

Vienna

17 Jul 2016

The pleasure of parody: delightful Opera seria

By Hilary Stroh

Brussels

Gassmann's comedy L'opera seria gets a new production in Brussels

By Nahoko Gotoh, 11 February 2016

An opera that pokes fun at opera seria? An opera that features backstage preparations for a show, followed by an opera within an opera? No, it’s not Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos.

****1

****1

Brussels

15 Feb 2016

Gassmann's comedy L'opera seria in Brussels

By Nahoko Gotoh