 On this occasion they remained quite faithful to the text and basic story recounted Book I of "Don Quixote" where he travels to the Sierra Morena mountains and has a series of encounters with the wily inhabitants and two pairs of unhappy lovers.Described in the libretto as a "tragicomedia per musica" (tragicomedy in music), it is essentially a parody of the "opera seria" genre and its heroic arias.