La Spinalba (original) (raw)

La Spinalba (Spinalba, ovvero Il vecchio matto, in English Spinalba or The Mad Old Man) is an opera (dramma comico) in three acts, with music by Francisco António de Almeida to an Italian-language libretto whose author is unknown. It was premiered in the Portuguese Carnival season of 1739 at the Palácio da Ribeira, Lisbon.