An introduction to Rossini can be described as this delicious work, very well served by the production of the Teatro Real. Rossini, an operatic par excellence, risks being misunderstood; we must forgive his creatures for being more figures than characters, while feelings and emotions are treated as abstract liquors.
The librettist Romani takes full advantage of his brilliant idea, nothing less than introducing a poet, embodied by a funny Florian Sempey, who participates in the action to transform it at will.