Il Pompeo
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Il Pompeo | |
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Opera by Alessandro Scarlatti | |
Librettist | Nicolò Minato |
Language | Italian |
Premiere | 25 January 1683 Teatro di Palazzo Colonna, Rome |
Il Pompeo is a dramma per musica in three acts by composer Alessandro Scarlatti. Written in 1682 when Scarlatti was 22 years old, it was his fourth opera and first dramatic work on a serious and grand subject. The opera uses an Italian language libretto by Nicolò Minato which had previously been used by Francesco Cavalli for his 1666 opera Pompeo Magno. The work premiered at the Teatro di Palazzo Colonna in Rome on 25 January 1683.[1]
Roles
Role[2] | Voice type[2] | Premiere cast 25 January 1683 |
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Pompeo | tenor | |
Giulio Cesare | bass | |
Giulia, daughter of Giulio Cesare | contralto castrato travesti | |
Scipione Servilio, loved by Giulia | soprano castrato | |
Mitridate | tenor | |
Issicratea, Mitridate's wife | soprano castrato travesti | |
Sesto, son of Pompeo | alto castrato | |
Claudio, son of Giulio Cesare | soprano castrato | |
Harpalia, Issicratea's slave | tenor travesti | |
Farnace, son of Mitridate | soprano castrato |
References
- ^ Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Pompeo, 25 January 1683". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
- ^ a b Boyd, Malcolm (1997) [1992]. Stanley Sadie (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol.3. London: Macmillan Reference Limited. p. 1055. ISBN 1-56159-228-5.
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