Giving Voice Society presents its third fully staged opera in Mumbai, Cimarosa’s delightful comedy, Il Matrimonio Segreto (The Secret Marriage).
The Secret Marriage is an opera in two acts by Domenico Cimarosa, based on the play The Clandestine Marriage by Colman and Garrick. It was first performed in 1792 in Vienna, in the presence of Emperor Leopold II.
Cimarosa’s only work still to be regularly performed, it is arguably one of the greatest 18th century operas apart from those by Mozart. Its premiere was the occasion of the longest encore in operatic history; Leopold II was so delighted that he ordered supper served to the company and the entire opera repeated immediately after.
The sparkling music is a perfect accompaniment to the comic misunderstandings of the plot.
At the Royal Opera House Mumbai from 27 to 29 July.
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