Paisiello's La Grotta di Trofonio, fun and happy ending in Martina Franca

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 07 August 2016

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Reviewed at Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca on 31 July 2016

Paisiello, La grotta di Trofonio

Giuseppe Grazioli, Conductor

Alfonso Antoniozzi, Director

Dario Gessati, Set Designer

Gianluca Falaschi, Costume Designer

Benedetta Mazzucato, Dori

Caterina Di Tonno, Rubinetta

Matteo Mezzaro, Artemidoro

Domenico Colaianni, Don Gasperone

Angela Nisi, Eufelia

Daniela Mazzucato, Madama Bartolina

Roberto Scandiuzzi, Trofonio

Giorgio Caoduro, Don Piastrone

Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia

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Lorenzo Fiorito

Lorenzo Fiorito holds degrees in Humanities and in Languages and Literatures, and a Phd in Languages for Special Purposes. He is a lecturer in historical musicological subjects at the Pegaso University, Naples, the Universitas Mercatorum, Rome and MEDEA Higher Education Institution, Malta, currently researching musicology as a special language. He is a member of the National Music Critics Association and of the Italian Society of Musicology. He edited a series of volumes in Musicology and History of Music for the publisher Diana Edizioni, mainly concerning the Neapolitan School of Music of the 18th century, and is the founder and artistic director of the “Francesco Durante Festival” in Frattamaggiore.