Ezio (libretto)
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Ezio is an opera libretto by Metastasio, first officially set to music by Pietro Auletta and premièred in the Teatro delle Dame, Rome, on December 26, 1728; an unauthorized setting by Nicola Porpora had already been premièred a month earlier (November 20) in Venice.[1]
Other notable settings include:
- Ezio (Handel), King's Theatre, London 1732
- Ezio (Mysliveček) (1775), Naples
- Ezio (Mysliveček) (1777), Munich – completely new music
- Ezio (Gluck), Prague 1750, revised Vienna 1763
- Ezio (1730), Johann Adolph Hasse, Naples, revised Dresden 1755
- Ezio (1750), Davide Perez, Teatro Regio Ducal, Milan
- Ezio (1757), Tommaso Traetta, Teatro delle Dame, Rome
- Ezio (Latilla), Naples 1758
References
- ↑ Irving Godt, Marianna Martines: a woman composer in the Vienna of Mozart and Haydn John A. Rice – 2010, p. 61 "Typical of the collection is 'Pensa a serbarmi, o cara', Marianna's setting of an aria text from Metastasio's Ezio, a libretto first heard in Venice in 1728 with music by Porpora and in Rome the following year with music by Pietro Auletta"
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