FLORENCE
HAYDN'S LITTLE TWO-ACT L'ISOLA DISABITATA, to a text by Pietro Metastasio (the composer's only setting of a complete libretto by this poet), was given a rare and quite good performance in the 400-seat Piccolo Teatro of the Communale in Florence as part of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.
Fifteen years before the opera begins, a newly wed couple, along with the bride's infant sister, are shipwrecked on a deserted island (isola disabitata). Later, pirates carried the ...