« Les extravagances que l’on appelle des règles dans le drame musical » Gustavo I, re di Svezia ou le début de la collaboration entre Galuppi et Goldoni

Gustavo I re di Svezia (1740) is the first fruit of the long and fertile collaboration between Galuppi and Goldoni. This work describes the context within which this creation took place and highlights the characteristics of a score in which a serious genre is stripped of its usual heroic clichés.