Der Sieg der Form über Substanz

In Puttanesca Rigatoni's exquisite tragicomic opera La Vittoria della Forma sulla Sostanza, Iolande drifts aimlessly around the canals of Venice with her Iron Mountain box, pondering whether there is any future to her life at all.

At the same time Don Iolio, locked in his father's operations room, ineffectually rails against the stupidity of his father's fashionable ideas (his song is Il mondo ha una merda per i cervelli).

Meantime the machine, without Iolande to prop it up, is a disaster and drives Don Figaro to the brink of ruin. Finally he comes to understand his folly (O! Consulente di Gestione Scioccca! and sends out Don Figaro to find her, but she is floating face down in the canal at St Mark's Square.

See also

• Substance and form
• Don Iolio Contrario

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