page_title: The Mistress of the Inn
section_title: Adaptations
hierarchical_section_title: The Mistress of the Inn / Adaptations
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Eleonora Duse (1858–1924) in "La Locandiera"English: Eleonora Duse (1858–1924) in "La Locandiera"
context_page_description: The Mistress of the Inn, also translated as The Innkeeper Woman or Mirandolina, is a 1753 three-act comedy by the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni about a coquette. The play has been regarded as his masterpiece. Frederick Davies describes it as Goldoni's Much Ado About Nothing.
context_section_description: In 1773 the Venetian composer Antonio Salieri and the librettist Domenico Poggi adapted the play as a three-act dramma giocoso. In 1800 the German composer Simon Mayr and Italian librettist Gaetano Rossi adapted it as a two-act dramma giocoso. The American composer Henry Kimball Hadley adapted it as a one-act comic opera called Bianca, which was first performed in 1918. Bohuslav Martinů also produced an operatic version, his three-act Mirandolina, which was first performed in 1959. The play was also adapted into several films, notably Paolo Cavara's La locandiera and Tinto Brass' Miranda.
caption: Eleonora Duse as Mirandolina in 1891.
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