Rosinda

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)

Rosinda is an opera in three acts and a prologue by the Italian composer Francesco Cavalli with a libretto by Giovanni Faustini. It was first performed at the Teatro Sant 'Apollinare, Venice in 1651 and revived in Naples and/or Florence in 1653 under the title Le magie amorose. The opera was performed in 2008 in Germany (Potsdam and Bayreuth) with Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli in the title role.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, 1651 (Conductor: – )
Aurilla	soprano
Cillena	soprano
Clitofonte	tenor
Meandro	bass
Nerea	soprano
Plutone	bass
Proserpina	soprano
Rosinda	soprano
Rudione	bass
Thisandro	bass
Vafrillo	soprano

References

Source

Brenac, Jean-Claude, Le magazine de l'opéra baroque online at perso.orange.fr Retrieved 9 September 2011

External links

Photo Gallery of the 2008 performances in Germany – on the official web site of Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli.