This playful two act comedy based on Carlo Goldoni’s play Il matrimonio per concorso has lost none of its appeal almost two centuries after its 1816 premiere at the Teatro dei Fiorentini. In La Gazzetta, a nouveau-riche merchant places newspaper advertisements to find a suitable husband for his daughter, which leads to amorous entanglements and in the end two happy couples. Director Marco Carniti sets his colorful production in 1950s Paris with an ensemble cast of Rossini Opera Festival favorites including Nicola Alaimo, Rafaella Lupinacci, Vito Priante, Hasmik Torosyan and Maxim Mironov. Film image, synopsis and related credits courtesy of Stage Access.

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