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Donizetti's music in this early opera has the freshness and liveliness of his most mature comic works, but l barbiere di Siviglia and La Cenerentola were just a few years before, as one could easily perceive.

This is one of Michieletto's simplest stagings yet, the imagery used to a minimum to allow for focus on the psychological core.

Damiano Michieletto's new production in Venice sets the operetta in the 1950s. 

Fifty years ago, on 4 November 1966, Venice was struck by a terrible flood. Now this is the subject of a new opera by composeer Filippo Perocco premiered at the Teatro La Fenice.