• Artaserse is an opera (dramma per musica) in three acts composed by Leonardo Vinci to an Italian libretto by Pietro Metastasio. This was the first of many...
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    set to music by Leonardo Vinci in 1730 for Rome (Artaserse). It was subsequently set by Johann Adolph Hasse in 1730 (Artaserse) for Venice and in 1760...
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    (1729) La Contesa dei Numi (1729) Massimiano (1729) Artaserse (1730) In addition to operas, Vinci wrote a few cantatas, sonatas, a serenata, and two oratorios...
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    Artaserse is an opera (dramma per musica) in three acts composed by Johann Adolph Hasse to an Italian libretto adapted from that by Metastasio by Giovanni...
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    Leonardo Vinci Semiramide riconosciuta (1729) – Leonardo Vinci Artaserse (1730) – Leonardo Vinci Demetrio (1731) – Antonio Caldara Adriano in Siria (1732)...
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    Ifigenia in Tauride is an opera in five acts composed by Leonardo Vinci to a libretto by Benedetto Pasqualigo. It premiered on 26 December 1724 at the...
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  • Johann Adolf Hasse Arminio Artaserse Dalisa Nicola Antonio Porpora – Mitridate Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer – Pyrrhus Leonardo Vinci Alessandro nell'Indie...
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    instead in 1731, in revivals of Didone abbandonata and of the same Artaserse, both by Vinci. A colourful anecdote relates how another overweening castrato...
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    Metastasian composers were Hasse, Caldara, Vinci, Porpora, and Pergolesi. Vinci's settings of Didone abbandonata and Artaserse were much praised for their stromento...
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    Leonardo Vinci's Catone in Utica (1728) Semiramide in Leonardo Vinci's La Semiramide riconosciuta (1729) Mandane in Leonardo Vinci's Artaserse (1730) Cleofide...
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    Leonardo Vinci. It is largely based on Domenico Sarro's 1707 setting of Silvio Stampiglia's libretto Partenope but with new arias by Vinci. It was premiered...
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    countertenors to appear in the opera, TV, CD and DVD production of Leonardo Vinci’s Artaserse, which has been awarded numerous national and international music...
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    has also been set to music by Leonardo Vinci (1690–1730) and Hasse (1699–1783) in their respective operas Artaserse, by Antonio Salieri and Marianne von...
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    Gluck Endimione in La Calisto by Francesco Cavalli Semira in Artaserse by Leonardo Vinci A young man, the young Syrian, Herodias in Last Desire by Lucia...
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    Goerne. Chœur et Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi. Virgin Classics, 2011 Vinci: Artaserse. Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cenčić, Franco Fagioli, Valer Barna-Sabadus...
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    in operas by Hasse, Leonardo Vinci, and Nicola Porpora. He created the role of Arbace in Vinci and Metastasio's Artaserse, which is known for its difficult...
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    Jaroussky (Virgin Classics/EMI) 2010: Bach - Orchestral Suites 2012: Vinci - Artaserse Info at Allmusic Official website Concerto Köln discography at Discogs...
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    La Semiramide riconosciuta (6 February 1729, role of Mirteo) and Vinci's Artaserse (4 February 1730, role of Megacle). In 1733 he returned to Genoa for...
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    (Carestini's well-known showcase "Vo solcando un mar crudele" from Vinci's Artaserse), a choice which weakens the ending of the opera both dramatically...
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  • of the year" with works from the 17th and 18th centuries. Leonardo Vinci: Artaserse (Philippe Jaroussky et al., Virgin Classics, 2012) Steffani: Stabat...
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    Italian poet Metastasio in his opera libretto Artaserse (1730), which was first set to music by Leonardo Vinci, and subsequently by other composers such as...
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    latter's libretti, Siroe was also set by Hasse's contemporaries, for example Vinci, Vivaldi and Handel (see his Siroe of 1728). Siroe was first performed on...
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    Logroscino, 1743, Naples, never staged) Artaserse (opera seria, revision of the opera of the same name by Leonardo Vinci, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1743...
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    Decca, 2014 Venezia, Il Pomo d'oro, Riccardo Minasi Virgin, 2013 Vinci: Artaserse, Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cencic, Valer Barna-Sabadus, Franco...
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  • Mark Donahue & Jesse Lewis, engineers (Brad Wells & Roomful of Teeth) Vinci: Artaserse Hans-Martin Renz, Wolfgang Rixius & Ulrich Ruscher, engineers (Diego...
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    as skirt roles for castrati (e.g. Mandane and Semira in Leonardo Vinci's Artaserse). The Madwoman in Britten's Curlew River and the Cook in Prokofiev's...
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  • language and forgetting everything of the world. Metastasio's opera libretto Artaserse references the River Lethe in one of Artabano's arias, Su le sponde del...
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    v t e Johann Adolph Hasse Operas Enea in Caonia (1727) Tigrane (1729) Artaserse (1730) Cleofide (1731) Siroe (1733) Didone abbandonata (1742) Ipermestra...
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    Athamas in Semele, Andronico in Tamerlano, title role in Leonardo Vinci's Artaserse, Sorceress and Second Witch in Dido and Aeneas, Grace in Venus and...
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    he composed two operas per year, including Alessandro nell'Indie and Artaserse, both from 1730 and again with librettos by Metastasio. Leo was an organist...
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