La Gazzetta

La Gazzetta is a comic opera by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, satirising the influence of newspapers on people's lives. The libretto has recently been adapted to modern society. It was a great sucess in its time, but is now practically forgotten.

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The plot surrounds the story of a man, Don Pomponio Storione, who travels the world in search of a husband for his daughter, putting adds in the newspapers. He arrives in a city, and after a series of ridiculously inadequate pretendants, such as the Quaker Monsu Traversen or the waiter at the hotel, who end usually end up beating poor Pomponio, he finally resigns to let his daughter marry her lover, the only pretendant he seems to consider innapropriate.

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