Gli sposi malcontenti

Gli sposi malcontenti (The Discontented Newly-weds) is an opera buffa in 2 acts composed by Stephen Storace to an Italian libretto by Gaetano Brunati.

[5][6] Apart from Nancy Storace as Eginia, the original cast was Caterina Cavalieri (Enrichetta), Therese Teyber (Bettina), Michael Kelly (Valente), Vincenzo Calvesi (Casimiro), Stefano Mandini (Artidoro) and Francesco Benucci (Rosmondo), who all later went on to create major roles for Mozart.

However this is prevented during a complex act 2 finale set in the garden at night, in which Valente's plot is uncovered and the newly-weds resolve to make a fresh attempt at their marriage.

[10] The opera, the score of which was unpublished at the time, was subsequently performed in Prague, Leipzig and Dresden, and some of its music was arranged for wind ensemble by Johann Nepomuk Wendt [de].

[11] The first modern revival of Gli sposi malcontenti was given at the New Theatre, King's College, London, by Opera Viva, 28–29 March 1985, in a new performing edition by Richard Platt and an English translation by Brian Trowell.