Il Trespolo tutore (Trespolo the Tutor) is a 1679 comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Alessandro Stradella with a libretto by Giovanni Cosimo Villifranchi, based on the play by Giovan Battista Ricciardi.
The version by Stradella was first performed at the Teatro Falcone, Genoa on 30 or 31 January, 1679.
It is considered one of the first Italian comic operas, and the part of the tutor is one of the earliest basso buffo roles.
[2] In 2004, a staging in a new edition by Michael Burden and with a new English singing translation by Simon Rees was given by New Chamber Opera at New College, Oxford.
Two brothers, Ciro and Nino, are in love with Artemisia; one of them goes mad and the other, who has been insane, is cured.