About the work
La finta pazza (The feigned madwoman) is an opera composed by Francesco Sacrati to a libretto by Giulio Strozzi. Its premiere in Venice during the Carnival season of 1641 inaugurated the Teatro Novissimo. It became one of the most popular operas of the seventeenth century.
From the Wikipedia article “La finta pazza”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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