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Towards the summer of 1731 Pergolesi composed the interludes of La Serva Padrona. They are called intermezzo after a type of stage composition that was sung between one act and another of a serious opera, to entertain the audience during a tragic action: they ceased when mimes regained popularity; and then the sung interludes were followed by two choreographic performances, ballets, one heroic and the other playful.

The records do not say what drama the interludes of La Serva Padrona ''accompanied. They certainly had to be staged at the Teatro San Bartolomeo, in Viceregency times our greatest theater; where in 1732 they heard again the Il Prigionier Superbo, a musical drama by the same author; who at that time was twenty-five years old. After 1843 they sang at the Bonacossi Theater in Ferrara, among the acts of Clemenza di Tito, music by Hasse; and the two actors of the operetta were Meliini and Bevilacqua, highly regarded playful singers in those days''.