La Serva padrona

La Serva padrona is an opera buffa in one act with a score by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (overture by Paganelli) and libretto by Gennaro Antonio Federico . This work had its world premiere at the San Bartolomeo theatre in Naples on 28 August 1733, and it came to enjoy widespread popularity in Italy before coming to Paris. Curiously enough, Lucco Papirio’s troupe did not exert much influence upon French theatregoers with their performances of Baiocco e Serpilla at the Palais-Royal in 1729, but…