L'Olimpiade
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L'Olimpiade is an opera libretto by Metastasio, set to music by over 60 baroque and classical composers, among which are (by chronological order of first performance):
- Antonio Caldara: L'Olimpiade, first performance 28 August 1733, in honor of Elisabeth, wife of Emperor Charles VI
- Antonio Vivaldi L'Olimpiade, Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo, 1734
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi L'Olimpiade, 1735
- Leonardo Leo L'Olimpiade, 1737
- Domenico Alberti Olimpiade, 1739
- Tommaso Traetta L'Olimpiade, 1758
- Niccolò Jommelli L'Olimpiade, Stuttgart, 1761
- Vincenzo Manfredini L'Olimpiade, 1762, Moscow
- Josef Mysliveček, L'Olimpiade, 4 November 1778
- Domenico Cimarosa L'Olimpiade, Vicenza, 10 July 1784
- Giovanni Paisiello, L'Olimpiade, Naples, Teatro San Carlo, 20 January 1786
- Gaetano Donizetti Olimpiade, (1817, incomplete)
Others: Johann Adolf Hasse and Baldassare Galuppi
The story, set in Ancient Greece at the time of the Olympic games, is about amorous rivalry and characters' taking places to gain the loved one. The story ends with two marriages being announced.
