La figlia del mago (The Sorcerer's Daughter) is a children's opera in two acts by Lorenzo Ferrero set to an Italian-language libretto by Marco Ravasini.
[2] The premiere directed by Caterina Mattea and conducted by Jan Latham-Koenig took place in Montepulciano, at the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte on 31 July 1981.
The opera had many subsequent new productions: at the Teatro Comunale, Florence on 23 November 1991; at La Scala in Milan on 11 March 1992; in Naples at Teatro di San Carlo on 7 March 1995; in Rouen at Opéra de Rouen on 8 November 1992; in Mâcon at the Scène Nationale on 27 March 1993; at Palm Beach Opera on 17 October 1993; in Helsinki at the Finnish National Theatre on 4 May 1994; in Brighton at the Brighton Festival on 22 May 1997; in Milan, as a school project of Caravaggio and Carducci High Schools, on 22 May 2000; in Kiel at the Fischmarkthalle Kiel-Wellingdorf (fish market) on 30 May 2008.
Soprano's father, King Bass, arrives accompanied by his pet sea monster and tries to persuade his daughter to come back home.
Just as they are about to be executed King Bass bursts in to liberate his daughter, but she seizes his magic wand and casts a spell which forces the two fathers to perform a frantic dance until they beg for mercy and give their consent for the marriage.