It is indisputable that a great deal of the director's creative ideas have more to do with making-it-funny-for-the-audience than with the work's inner structure: the ballet staging Violante and Belfiore's fight during the ouverture does not go with the music, setting the opera in a kind of House and Gardening store does not go with the plot, the fact that Sandrina and Nardo are dressed in XVIIIt