Lucia
Ronchetti

PRESENTATION
Sub-Plot is a reduction of the opera seria Didone abbandonata created by Sarro and Metastasio in 1724 for the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples.
Fragments from the versions of the two prominent composers Jommelli and Hasse are quoted and elaborated for a reduced cast including  Enea, Jarba and Dido as characters and viol one and baroque bassoon as spectral orchestra, servants, soldiers, audience on stage or generic presences.
The Metastasian experiment, a play within a play, which reveals something of the complex and confusing process of Neapolitan productions of the period, will be reversed through the presentation of the micro-opera seri a as entr'acte of the original intermezzo "L'Impresario delle Canarie".