Guildhall School of Music and Drama,London
The opera’s slender tale of a group of women sleuthing out their husbands’ foodie pastime is briskly conducted and well performed by the student castErmanno Wolf-Ferrari – who tacked his Italian mother’s maiden name on to his German father’s surname – was born and died in Venice, but his life and cultural outlook reflected both sides of his binational background.
Much of his career was spent in Munich, or where his comedy The Inquisitive Women – the first of five titles based on the 18th-century Venetian playwright Goldoni – received its successful premiere in 1903. International productions followed,mostly in the language of the original libretto – Italian, with Venetian dialect thrown in.
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Source: theguardian.com