Pocket Opera North Beach, through nearly two decades of presenting a weekly chamber music series (1960-1978) at the Old Spaghetti Factory, to his present-day fame as the creator of one of San Francisco's most popular operatic institutions. Pippin's first translation came in 1968, in the course of preparing Mozart's one-act opera "Bastien und Bastienne" for performance as part of his chamber music series. The opera, and his singing translation of it, were immediate successes with San Francisco audiences. From that point on, Pippin has dedicated himself to the task of producing literate English versions of both well-loved classics and lesser-known gems of
Lisuart und Dariolette Lisuart und Dariolette Lisuart und Dariolette, oder Die Frage und die Antwort ("Lisuart and Dariolette, or The Question and the Answer") is a 'romantisch-comische Oper' by the German composer Johann Adam Hiller. The libretto was by Daniel Schiebeler based on "La fée Urgèle ou Ce qui plaît aux dames" by Charles Simon Favart, itself derived from The Wife of Bath's Tale by Geoffrey Chaucer. The opera was first performed in a two-act version at the Rannstädtertor Theater, Leipzig on 25 November 1766. A revised version in three acts was produced on 7 January 1767. Queen Ginevra of England sends the