"LA SERVA PADRONA"
Sir,-In the article "Mistress and Maid" in The Listener of November :20 describing the forthcoming broadcasts of the C.A.S. presentation of "La Serva Padrona,", one of the characters listed is called "Pandolfo" (the doting old bachelor), and another "Scapin" (the valet). Now I have no objection to this (apart
from the mixing of French with Italian in the nomenclature which, so far as I know, does not happen in opera buffa); the names of Cinderella’s father and one of the Cortnedia dell’Arte masks would fit these particular characters very well. Pergolesi’s librettist, however, called them "Uberto" and "Vespone." Perhaps the writer of the article was elliptically showing us his knowledge of the generic origins of the plot, or perhaps he just hadn’t bothered to look at the score he was chatting about so familiarly.
LAYTON RING
(Auckland).
(Our synopsis of the plot was taken from Oscar Thom ’s Cyclopaedia of Music of Musicians,-Ed. )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 5
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156"LA SERVA PADRONA" New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 752, 11 December 1953, Page 5
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