La grotta di Trofonio Trofonio`s Cave is an opera described as an opera comica in two acts five scenes composed by Antonio Salieri to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Battista Casti.
The work was first performed in Vienna Austria at the Burgtheater on October 12 1785. The similarity of the story of the opera may have influenced Lorenzo da Ponte when he wrote the libretto of Mozart`s Così fan tutte.

Synopsis
Dori and Ofelia sisters are in love with Plistene and Artemidoro friends. The two pairs have contrasting personalities Dori and Plistene are extroverted and enthusiastic Ofelia and Artemidoro are introverted and reserved. The magician Trofonio invites them to his magic cave where their characters are reversed first the men and then the women. Eventually everything is sorted out and there is a happy ending.

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La grotta di Trofonio, opera (1785),  (Salieri)
2005, L`opera de Lausanne
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