Both this opera and Giovanni Paisiello's 1781 setting of the same libretto use a similar deceptive cadence with a rising semitone in the bass before one character calls another's name in a failed attempt to summon her.
Both this opera and Giovanni Paisiello's 1781 setting of the same libretto use a similar deceptive cadence with a rising semitone in the bass before one character calls another's name in a failed attempt to summon her. One character in this opera insists, "You keep saying 'no' when you mean to say 'yes'" during the duet "Lo conosco a quegli'occhietti." Another character in this opera silently demands a 4,000 crown dowry while dressed as a soldier named Tempesta. Jean-Jacques Rousseau boosted this opera's reputation in his Letter on French Music after its 1752 performance in Paris sparked the Querelle des Buffons. It was originally performed as an intermezzo to the composer's Il Prigioniero Superbo. For 10 points, name this opera buffa in which the silent Vespone helps the servant Serpina marry her master Uberto, a work by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi.
Both this opera and Giovanni Paisiello's 1781 setting of the same libretto use a similar deceptive cadence with a rising semitone in the bass before one character calls another's name in a failed attempt to summon her.
La Serva Padrona [or The Servant Turned Mistress; or equivalents]