The opera was Telemann's first full length purely comic opera,[1] and was performed at the
Oper am Gänsemarkt, while
Reinhard Keiser was still running the opera.
^Donald Jay Grout, Hermine Weigel Williams, A Short History of Opera (203), p. 182: "He excelled in the comic style, as evidenced from his first full-length comic opera, Der geduldige Socrates (1721), his one-act serenata, Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho (1761), and his intermezzo, Pimpinone (1725),"
^Platt N. Making Music. Ashford, Pemble Productions, 2001, p. 70.