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Following the success of his libretto for The Marriage of Figaro, Da Ponte was asked by Storace to provide for him a libretto based on Shakespeare. Da Ponte compressed Shakespeare's plot into two acts, but retained nearly all the key elements. Gli equivoci was the second of Storace's operas to be performed at the Burgtheater.
Storace composed the opera following the success of his opera Gli sposi malcontenti in the previous year.
Storace reused some of the music of Gli equivoci in his English operas, including No Song, No Supper and The Pirates.
Performance history
The opera was first performed on 27 December 1786 in the Burgtheater, Vienna.
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