 The staging was designed by Giuseppe Galli Bibiena.The production also included two comic "intermedi" following Acts 2 and 4 and three ballets with music by Nicola Matteis, the Younger—"Dance of the Peasants" (at the end of Act 1), "Dance of the Puppeteers" (at the end of Act 3), and "Dance of the Servants" (at the end of Act 5).The opera was an immediate success and was performed 25 times in Vienna between its premiere and 1737.