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Lorenzo Viotti

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Donizettis hilarious opera, featuring Perrys innovative staging, Viottis lively conducting, and an outstanding casta perfect trifectaRehearsals for a new opera begin at a theater in a small Italian town. Suddenly, Mamma Agata, the mother of the supporting soprano Luigia, bursts in and makes a scene, demanding, Give my daughter a better role! The leading prima donna, Dalia, gets into a huge fight with Agata. The leading tenor, Guglielmo; the composer, Biscroma; the librettist, Cesare; and the theater managereach begins making their own demands, throwing the rehearsal into total chaos…Donizettis *The Theatres Conveniences and Inconveniences* (*Viva la Mamma*) is one of the masterpieces from the composers middle period. Based on the one-act *The Theatres Conveniences*, which was well-received upon its 1827 premiere, the composer himself revised the work, and it premiered as a two-act opera in