An island where dominant women rule and submissive men preen sets the scene for L’Uomo femina, a surprising Baroque opera that prefigures contemporary debates around sex and gender.

Partner of Goldoni, admired by Joseph Haydn and Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, Galuppi was the last representative of a Venetian tradition at the origins of opera as public spectacle, and was extremely well-known in Europe at his time. The wonderfully lyrical and comique opera associates a musical language of early Classicism with the Baroque spirit of teatro bufo.