La scala di seta, Royal Opera Young Artists, ROH Linbury Studio, October 2014
Posted on 24 October 2014First produced in Venice when Rossini was just 20, this comic farce is a little gem. Its quality is sometimes called into question by a story that the impresario who commissioned it served the young composer with a poor libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa to which Rossini responded with slapdash music. Whatever the truth of …