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| Composer | Gassmann, Florian Leopold (1729-1774) |
| Period | Baroque |
| Year | 1769 |
| Work type | Opera / Oratorio |
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A forgotten meta-opera at La Scala: Gassmann’s L’opera seria
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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.
The pleasure of parody: delightful Opera seria
2016 Filene Young Artists give outstanding performance in Gassmann's Opera Seria.
Gassmann's comedy L'opera seria in Brussels
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.