refuses to pay such a sum. Tempesta threatens him to either pay the dowry or marry the girl himself. Uberto agrees to marry Serpina. Serpina and Vespone reveal their trick; but Uberto realizes that he has loved the girl all along. They will marry after all; and Serpina will now be the true mistress of the household. Musical numbers Part 1 Aria: Aspettare e non venire (Uberto) Recitativo: Quest'è per me disgrazia (Uberto, Serpina) Aria: Sempre in contrasti (Uberto) Recitativo: In somma delle somme (Serpina, Uberto) Aria: Stizzoso, mio stizzoso (Serpina) Recitativo: Benissimo. Hai tu inteso? (Uberto, Serpina) Duetto: Lo conosco a quegli occhietti (Serpina, Uberto) Part 2 Recitativo: Or che fatto ti sei (Serpina, Uberto) Aria: A Serpina penserete (Serpina) Recitativo: Ah! quanto mi sa male (Uberto, Serpina) Aria: Son imbrogliato io già (Uberto) Recitativo: Favorisca, signor, passi (Serpina, Uberto) Duetto finale (†): Contento tu sarai (Serpina, Uberto) (†It later became customary to replace this final duet with another: Per te ho io nel core. This the composer wrote two years later, in 1735, for his commedia per musica, Il Flaminio.) Scores The scores of the opera vary. Edwin F. Kalmus has one with massive omissions, wrong notes, and much spoken dialogue. Boosey & Hawkes has the score in an operetta adaptation by Seymour Barab, with highly simplified accompaniment and much spoken dialogue. Casa Ricordi presents the opera as sung through; it is the version most used. W. W. Norton & Company includes excerpts of the full score (for strings and continuo) that have numerous melodic differences from the Ricordi edition but correlate with the recording with Siegmund Nimsgern. Recordings and films Simonetto/Tuccari/Sesto Bruscantini, live in Capri, 1948, Cetra Pedrollo/Erato/Bacci, 1949, Polydor Vox Carlo Maria Giulini/Carteri/Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, 1955, Columbia Ferdinand Leitner/Mazzoleni/Cortis, 1955, Archiv Serra-G/Colorni/Rovetta, 1956, RCA FILM: Ferrara/Anna Moffo/Paolo Montarsolo, 1958 Mario Lanfranchi movie, View Video (label) Virginia Zeani opposite her husband Rossi-Lemeni conducted by Singer, 1959, Vox Renata Scotto and Bruscantini conducted by Fasano, 1960, Ricordi Mariella Adani and Leonardi Monreale, Pomeriggi Musicali del Teatro Nuovo di Milano, Ettore Gracis conducting, 1960, Club Français du Disque; later Nonesuch Records H-71043 Bugeanu/Petrescu-Cironeanu/Rintzler, 1961, Electrecord FILM: Australian TV movie with June Bronhill, 1962 Maier/Bonifaccio/Siegmund Nimsgern and the Collegium Aureum, 1969, BASF; later Deutsche Harmonia Mundi Koch-H/Miljaković/Süß, 1970, Telefunken Ros Marbà/Carmen Bustamante/Renato Capecchi, 1973, Ensayo Alberto Zedda/Celine/Bruscantini, 1974, Vedette Quadrifoglio Gordana Minov-Jevtović and Nikola Mitić, 1976, PGP RTB Németh/Katalin Farkas/József Gregor