Il teatro alla moda - a TV series set in the first half of the 18 century following the lives of art

Il teatro alla moda - a TV series set in the first half of the 18 century following the lives of artists from the musical period known as opera seria.

Act I

Naples, 1720, after spending all of his foster father’s inheritance a young abbate Pietro Metastasio arrives from Rome to work in a law office. Despite his employer’s antipathy towards the world of art Metastasio continues to share his boring work with writing about antique heroes or ancient gods, something that he loved to do since childhood. His poetry leads him to the salon of the operatic diva Marianna Bulgarelli known as “La Romanina”. Thanks to her help Metastasio becomes a well-known person and meets the most talented singers and composers of the city, including the music teacher Nicola Porpora and his promising pupil – Carlo “Farinelli” Broschi. Soon Pietro finds himself charmed with an innocent castrato, yet La Romanina falls in love with the much younger poet…

_{“To the Poets – In the first place, the modern Poet should not have read and should never read the ancient Authors, LatinorGreek. And this is because the ancient GreeksorLatins have never read the moderns.” Benedetto Marcello, Il teatro alla moda (The Fashionable Theater)}