Atenaide (Vivaldi)
Opera by Antonio Vivaldi
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Opera by Antonio Vivaldi | |
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Librettist | Apostolo Zeno |
Language | Italian |
Premiere | 29 December 1728 (1728-12-29) |
Atenaide (RV 702) is an opera by Antonio Vivaldi to a revised edition of a 1709 libretto by Apostolo Zeno for Caldara.[1] It was first performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence on 29 December 1728 for the 1729 Carnival season.[2]
Roles
Role | Voice type | Premiere cast:[3] 29 December 1728, Florence |
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Teodosio II, emperor, in love with Atenaide | soprano castrato | Gaetano Valletta |
Atenaide (also called Eudossa), Leontino's daughter | soprano | Giustina Turcotti |
Pulcheria, Teodosio's sister | contralto | Anna Girò |
Varane, son of Isdegarde (King of Persia), also in love with Atenaide | contralto | Lisabetta Moro |
Leontino [de] | tenor | Annibal Pio Fabbri |
Marziano, general of Teodosio, in love with Pulcheria | contralto | Anna Maria Faini |
Probo, praetorian prefect, also in love with Pulcheria | tenor | Gaetano Baroni |
Recordings
- 2007: Sandrine Piau, Vivica Genaux, Guillemette Laurens, Romina Basso, Nathalie Stutzmann, Paul Agnew, Stefano Ferrari, Modo Antiquo, Federico Maria Sardelli. 3CDs Naïve Records
References
- ^ Julie Anne Sadie, Companion to Baroque Music 1998, p. 259: "... by Charles VI, for whom he had provided two librettos during his residence in Barcelona as Charles III the Pretender; Atenaide (1709) and Scipione nelle Spagne (c1710) were collaboratively set by A. S. Fiore, Antonio Caldara and Gasparini."
- ^ "Work details", Corago, University of Bologna
- ^ "Libretto (1729)", p. 5
External links
- L'Atenaide, RV 702 (Vivaldi): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
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Antonio Vivaldi
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- Teuzzone (1718)
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- La verità in cimento (1720)
- La Silvia (1721)
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- Giustino (1724)
- Dorilla in Tempe (1726)
- Farnace (1727)
- Orlando furioso (RV 728) (1727)
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- Argippo (1730)
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- Semiramide (1732)
- La fida ninfa (1732)
- Motezuma (1733)
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- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Nisi Dominus
- Credo
- Magnificat
- Stabat Mater
- Dixit Dominus
- Nulla in mundo pax sincera
- Introduzioni
- Juditha triumphans
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