La cambiale di matrimonio (2006)

Rossinis first staged opera already contains all the elements that would take the music world by storm in Il barbiere di Siviglia Litaliana in Algeri and La Cenerentola in the years to come melodic inventiveness ingenious connections between sung lines and orchestral accompaniment in the exuberant finale musical humour and ensembles using breathtakingly fast parlando singing This sparkling production continues the Rossini oneact opera series emerging from the Schwetzingen Festival with excellent direction acting and stagecraft Director Michael Hampe created a perfect realization of the opera in the small jewellike Rococo Theatre of Schwetzingen Palace in May 1989