
Giacomo Puccini

Mieczysław Weinberg

Giuseppe Verdi

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Giuseppe Verdi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Benjamin Britten

Grigory Frid. Udo Zimmermann

Carl Maria von Weber — Gustav Mahler

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Alexander Tchaikovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Alexander Dargomyzhsky

Richard Strauss

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Giuseppe Verdi

Antonín Dvořák

Dmitri Shostakovich

Gaetano Donizetti

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Sergei Banevich

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

George Frideric Handel

Georges Bizet

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Gioachino Rossini

Dimitry Rostovsky

Giacomo Puccini

Richard Wagner

Richard Strauss

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Georges Bizet

Dmitri Shostakovich
Alexei Verstovsky

Anton Rubinstein

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Georg Philipp Telemann

Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Guiseppe Verdi

Sergei Prokofiev

Modest Mussorgsky

Antonio Salieri

Gaetano Donizetti

Benjamin Britten. Camille Saint-Saëns

Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Gioacchino Rossini

Dmitri Shostakovich
Umberto Giordano

Modest Mussorgsky
Hector Berlioz

Giacomo Puccini

Jacques Offenbach

Sergei Prokofiev. Maurice Ravel

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Tatiana Kamysheva

The opera Pimpinone or the Unequal Marriage by Georg Philipp Telemann, which was created as a “comic intermezzo”, was first performed on the 27th of September 1725 in Hamburg between the acts of the opera Tamerlano by George Frideric Handel. The libretto by Pietro Pariati was originally intended for an Italian composer Tomaso Albinoni. Librettist Johann Philipp Praetorius created its German edition. The premiere was so successful that Praetorius and Telemann wrote a new opera Die amours der Vespetta to continue the story. The plot of Pimpinone anticipated La serva padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, created several years later: an attractive housemaid Vespetta (“little wasp” in Italian) seduces her master Pimpinone and marries him. After that the old man, who is in love but unhappy in marriage, has to bear his wife’s caprices. Having got a firm hold of his house and wallet, Vespetta subordinates her husband.
Premiered at the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre on March, 25. 1983.
Revival of the first production — 22 May, 2009.
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Vespetta, a chambermaid, is looking for a rich husband. She meets Pimpinone, a wealthy merchant who is looking for a servant. Won over by her good looks and her flattery, he falls for her and marries her. Once married Vespetta shows her waspish nature (the name Vespetta means «little wasp») and completely dominates her husband. Vespetta systematically does likewise to the keys to the larder, the wine-cellar and the money-chest.
Pimpinone is displeased at her behavior but she is unafraid and points out the terms of the marriage stipulate that she gets the dowry if they divorce. Pimpinone is forced to capitulate to her every whim.