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Coro Donizetti Opera, Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Alessandro Corbelli, Francesco Lucii, Marilena Ruta, Caterina Dellaere, Vincenzo Milletarì, Lorenzo Liberali, Alex Esposito, Lorenzo Martelli
Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera L'aio nell'imbarazzo or A tutor in a jam! was greeted with wild enthusiasm at its Rome premiere in 1824, and became one of the composer's first great successes both in Italy and abroad. Modelled on operas by Rossini but already displaying the psychological depths of Donizetti's mature work, this is a narrative in which, shielded from female company, the overprotected sons of a strict Marquis are entrusted to their tutor Don Gregorio. Of course, everything unravels into emotional chaos in the best opera buffa tradition, with its universal themes of romance and social politics colourfully set in 2042
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