This is the first published version of a sparkling comic opera written in 1786 for Vienna’s Burgtheater, to a Da Ponte libretto adapted from Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. A pupil of Mozart, Stephen Storace was a major figure in English opera of the late 18th century, and Gli equivoci is a unique testament to his versatility and promise. The work is issued in a reduction for voices and keyboard, with an English singing translation.

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