La gazzetta

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La gazzetta is a comic opera by Gioacchino Antonio Rossini, satirizing the influence of newspapers on people's lives. The libretto has recently been adapted to modern society. It was a great success in its time, but is now practically forgotten.

The plot surrounds the story of a pretentious Neapolitan, Don Pomponio Storione, who travels the world in search of a husband for his daughter, putting ads in the newspapers. He arrives in a city, and after a series of ridiculously inadequate pretendants, such as the Quaker Monsu Traversen or the waiter at the hotel who usually end up beating poor Pomponio, he finally resigns to let his daughter marry her lover, the only pretendant he seems to consider inappropriate.