Movie Details
Original Language:Italian
Production Companies:Teatro Real de Madrid
Cast & Crew
L
Laurent Pelly
Director
G
Gaetano Donizetti
Original Music Composer
D
Domenico Gilardoni
Writer
A
Antonio Simeone Sografi
Story
Viva la Mamma
"An opera where the prima donna is a baritone"Movie
2 hr 4 minMusic
Plot
First seen in Naples in 1827 this farce of a theatre within a theatre narrates the mishaps of a secondrate opera company as it stages the great serious drama Romolo ed Ersilia in a provincial theatre The unbearable tensions between the two lead singers are finally resolved with the decisive intervention of one of their mothers The coproduction by Ópera de Lyon along with the Grand Theâtre de Genève and Teatro Real is brought to life by Laurent Pelly a tireless champion of Donizettis comedies
