La SERVA PADRONA

47th Concert Season - "Maurizio Quintieri" Musical Association

La SERVA PADRONA
a comic opera by Giovanbattista Pergolesi

Rosaria BUSCEMI – Serpina
Alessandro SCANDERBEG – Uberto
Graziella SPADAFORA – Vespone
Andrea BAULEO, piano

Pergolesi composed La Serva Padrona in 1733. It was actually a comedic intermezzo scheduled during Pergolesi’s own dramatic opera titled ‘Il prigionier superbo’ (which didn’t achieve even remotely the success of the intermezzo). La Serva Padrona tells the skirmish between the wealthy Uberto and his servant Serpina, cunning and seductive, who conquers him despite his outbursts, with the help of the mute servant Vespone. The opera presents a universal dynamic that still today reflects the interplay between social status, money, seduction, and conventions, elements that, three hundred years later (and perhaps forever), continue to often influence relationships between men and women. It is not just a light comedic opera, but a text rich in reflective cues, always current in its message of social subversion and individual affirmation.

The musical accompaniment is performed by the piano instead of an orchestral ensemble.
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