L'Ospedale review – an operatic Carry On Matron, only darker

Wilton’s Music Hall, LondonThe first modern performance of this rediscovered curio – composer unknown – satirises the failings of mental health care with admirable imagination There’s much about the 17th-century Italian comic opera The Hospital that we don’t know, including the name of its composer and where and when it was first performed; but the libretto seems to be the work of satirist Antonio Abati, who took as his subject a group of people all suffering from s