Pompeo Magno

Francesco Cavalli

Operas Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo (1639) Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne (1640) La Didone (1641) La virtù dei strali d'Amore (1642) Egisto (1643) L'Ormindo (1644) Doriclea (1645) Il Giasone (1649) Orimonte (1650) Oristeo (1651) La Calisto (1652) Eritrea (1652) Veremonda (1652) Rosinda (1653) Orione (1653) Ciro (1654) Xerse (1655) Statira principessa di Persia (1655) Erismena (1655) Artemisia (1657) Hipermestra (1658) Elena (1659) Ercole amante (1662) Scipione affricano (1664) Mutio Scevola (1665) Pompeo Magno (1666) Eliogabalo (1667)

Pompeo Magno (Pompeius Magnus) is an opera in three acts by Francesco Cavalli. It was designated as a dramma per musica. The Italian libretto was by Nicolò Minato.

Performance history

It was first performed in Venice at the Teatro S Salvatore on 20 February 1666.

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, February 20, 1666 (Conductor: - )
Pompeo (Pompey)	alto
Sesto (Sextus), his son	soprano
Mitridate (Mithridates), King of Pontus	tenor
Issicratea (Hypsicrateia), Queen of Pontus	soprano
Farnace (Pharnaces), her son	soprano
Harpalia, her slave	soprano
Cesare (Caesar)	bass
Claudio (Claudius), his son	tenor
Giulia (Julia), his daughter	soprano
Servilio (Servilius), her lover	soprano
Crasso (Crassus)	tenor

Amadeus Almanac, accessed 4 November 2008
Clinkscale, Martha Novak, "Pompeo Magno" , The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7