Le donne rivali is an intermezzo in two acts by composer Domenico Cimarosa with an Italian libretto by a now unknown poet.
In accordance with Papal law on theatre in Rome, the premiere cast was all-male.
[2] The opera was later produced in Venice and Florence, and in 1789, in French, in St.
[1] In recent years, Le donne rivali has been occasionally revived and recorded.
In 1991, the Juilliard Opera Center intertwined the work with Mozart's unfinished opera Lo sposo deluso, which shares the same libretto, to make one large work.