Lo speziale prefigures Mozart. It opens with an aria complaining about an apprentice apothecary's job, much like Leporello's opening aria in Don Giovanni. The trouser role of Volpino reminds one of Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro and the young lovers' use of disguises will call Cosi fan tutte to mind.

Librettist Carlo Goldoni
Date of composition 1768
Premiered 1768 in Fert?d, Hungary
Type Opera Buffa
Tonality D Major
Catalogue Hob. XXVIII:3
Instruments Orchestra
Voice (Tenor) - Sempronio, an old apothecary
Voice (Soprano) - Grilletta, Sempronio's ward
Voice (Tenor) - Mengone, Sempronio's apprentice
Voice (Mezzo-Soprano) - Volpino, a young rich dandy
Autotranslations beta Joseph Haydn: Lo speziale - Opera buffa en ré majeur, Hob. XXVIII:3 "The Apothecary"
Franz Joseph Haydn: Lo speziale - Opera buffa in re maggiore, Hob. XXVIII:3 "The Apothecary"
Joseph Haydn: Lo speziale - Opera buffa D-dur, Hob. XXVIII:3 "The Apothecary"