Giuseppe Verdi: Un giorno di regno, ossia Il finto Stanislao, Melodramma giocoso in two acts (2012)

The rare case of a musical comedy by Verdi. But his second stage work proved a complete fiasco when unveiled at La Scala, Milan, in 1840, and more than half a century was to pass before he attempted a second comedy with his final opera, Falstaff. Today, conversly, Verdi's early melodramma giocoso enjoys increasing popularity thanks to its wellspring of musical ideas and effervescent melodies.