A Critical Study and Translation of António José Da Silva's Cretan Labyrinth A Puppet Opera

Labirinto de Creta is one of the eight Portuguese satiric operas, first performed in the Lisbon puppet theatre from 1733 to 1738. Their librettist, Antonio Jose da Silva, is an enigmatic and ill-fated figure. Born in Rio de Janeiro in 1705, he was sentenced to death at an auto-da-fe in Lisbon in 1739, for having practiced Judaism.