Ezio (libretto)
Appearance
Ezio is an opera libretto by Pietro Metastasio, first officially set to music by Pietro Auletta and premièred in the Teatro delle Dame, Rome, on December 26, 1728; an unauthorized setting by Nicola Porpora had already been premièred a month earlier (November 20) in Venice.[1]
Other notable settings include:
- Ezio (Handel), King's Theatre, London 1732
- Ezio (Mysliveček, 1775), Naples
- Ezio (Mysliveček, 1777), Munich – completely new music
- Ezio (Gluck), Prague 1750, revised Vienna 1763
- Ezio (1730), Johann Adolph Hasse, Naples, revised Dresden 1755
- Ezio (1750), Davide Perez, Teatro Regio Ducale, Milan
- Ezio (1757), Tommaso Traetta, Teatro delle Dame, Rome
- Ezio (Latilla), Naples 1758
References
[edit]- ^ Irving Godt, Marianna Martines: a woman composer in the Vienna of Mozart and Haydn John A. Rice – 2010, p. 61 "Typical of the collection is 'Pensa a serbarmi, o cara', Marianna's setting of an aria text from Metastasio's Ezio, a libretto first heard in Venice in 1728 with music by Porpora and in Rome the following year with music by Pietro Auletta"