The ”commedia per musica” Le due contesse, premiered at Rome’s Teatro Valle in the carnival season of 1776, marked the first collaboration between Giovanni Paisiello and the Roman poet Giuseppe Petrosellini, who, in 1782, would write for Paisiello also.
The ”commedia per musica” Le due contesse, premiered at Rome’s Teatro Valle in the carnival season of 1776, marked the first collaboration between Giovanni Paisiello and the Roman poet Giuseppe Petrosellini, who, in 1782, would write for Paisiello also