Good account of a fine early Mozart
Written when Mozart was just 18 years old, La Finta Giardiniera is undoubtedly one of the composer's lesser works. It's very conventional in its arrangements, the development of the story and the tone owing much to the Neapolitan opera buffa style popularised by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. With Mozart, as with Pergolesi, however, there's a great deal of interest in the common people and a conflict exists between the serving classes and their masters where the roles are often somewhat reversed. With several characters assuming secret identities, appearances are often deceptive, and happiness cannot be found while one's true self is kept hidden. Even the gender confusion over the cross-dressing and the filling of male roles by female singers and castrati that are typical of these kind of comedies plays on this. Who really rules the roost and who wears the trousers?
What further distinguishes and exalts Mozart's (and indeed Pergolesi's) treatment of this fairly standard...
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