| Italian: Le astuzie femminili | |
| Type: | Dramma giocoso |
| Librettist: | Giuseppe Palomba |
| Language: | Italian |
| Premiere Location: | Teatro dei Fiorentini, Naples |
Le astuzie femminili (Feminine wiles) is a dramma giocoso in four acts by Domenico Cimarosa with an Italian libretto by . The opera buffa premiered at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples, Italy, on 26 August 1794. The opera was subsequently performed in Barcelona in 1795, Lisbon in 1797, Vienna in 1799, Paris in 1802, and London in 1804, remaining popular during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. Although not performed often today, the opera is still occasionally revived and a number of recordings have been made.[1]
It is at a disappointing London performance of Le astuzie feminili that Stephen Maturin glimpses Diana Villiers, now a kept woman, in Patrick O'Brian's historical novel Post Captain.
| Signor Lasagna Giampaolo | bass | Carlo Casaccia "Casacciello" |
| Bellina, pupil of Dottor Romualdo | soprano | Giovanna Codecasa |
| Dottor (doctor) Romualdo | baritone | Luigi Martinelli |
| Filandro, in love with Bellina | tenor | Antonio Benelli |
| Ersilia, Bellina's close friend | soprano | Marianna Muraglia |
| Leonora, a governess | mezzo-soprano | Luisa Negri |