Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona (with English subtitles)

From the Luna Theater in Brussels (1996)
La Serva Padrona

Music: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Libretto: Gennaro Antonio Federico

La serva padrona (The Servant Turned Mistress) is an opera buffa by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710 – 1736) to a libretto by Gennaro Antonio Federico, after the play by Jacopo Angello Nelli. The opera is only 45 minutes long and was originally performed as an intermezzo between the acts of a larger serious opera.

Donato Di Stefano - Uberto
Patrizia Biccirè - Serpina
Stefano Di Lucca - Vespone

Orchestra "La Petite Bande"
Sigiswald Kuijken - conductor
Ferrucio Soleri - stage director
Luisa Spinatelli - stage design & costumes
Albert Faura - light design
Dirk Gryspeirt - tv-director