Gaetano Donizetti's two-act, comic opera is performed before a live audience at Milan's Teatro alla Scala in this 1996 production featuring libretto by J.H. Vernoy De Saint-Georges and Jean F.A. Bayard. Ewa Podles and Bruno Pratico star, and the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala perform under conductor Donato Renzetti. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi