Pergolesi Livietta e Tracollo La serva padrona

Premiered in 1733 Pergolesis La Serva Pedrona is a Major event in the history of opera Due to the lightheatedness of the plot and the ordinariness of the characters not to say their coarseness La Serva Pedrona launched what is known today as the Quarrel of the Comic Actors la Querelle des Bouffons in French a quarrel that brought into conflict the advocates of the French tradition against the proponents of the Italian music the latter gathered behing the philosopher JeanJacques Rousseau If what they were fighting about seems trifling to the modern observer the quarrel occasioned fierce reactions wavering between jingoistic arguements and unjustified critics of the French style Be that as it may La Serva Pedrona is a masterpiece all the more so with the charmismatic Donato Di Stefano in the role of Uberto and the delightfull Patrizia Biccirè giving life to the mischievous Serpina