Oristeo
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Oristeo is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli. It was designated as a dramma per musica. The Italian libretto was by Giovanni Faustini.
The opera is notable for containing one of the first examples of a da capo aria, Udite amanti, sung by Corinta.
Performance history
It was first performed in Venice on the occasion of the inauguration of the Teatro Sant'Apollinare on 9 February 1651.
Roles
Role | Voice type | Premiere Cast, 1651 (Conductor: – ) |
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Diomeda, Princess of Caonia | soprano | |
Oristeo, King of Epirus | baritone or bass | |
Euralio, his son | soprano | |
Trasimede, Prince of Archaea | tenor | |
Corinta, Princess of Locri | soprano |
Recordings
Oristeo, Atto I Scena 4: Dimmi amor, che farò? Mariana Flores, Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón 2014
References
- Sources
- Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Oristeo". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
- Clinksdale, Martha Novak, " Oristeo ", The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
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Francesco Cavalli
- Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo (1639)
- Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne (1640)
- La Didone (1641)
- La virtù de' strali d'Amore (1642)
- L'Egisto (1643)
- Ormindo (1644)
- Doriclea (1645)
- Giasone (1649)
- Orimonte (1650)
- Oristeo (1651)
- La Calisto (1652)
- Eritrea (1652)
- Veremonda (1652)
- Rosinda (1653)
- L'Orione (1653)
- Ciro (1654)
- Il 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)
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