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    Artaserse is the name of a number of Italian operas, all based on a text by Metastasio. Artaserse is the Italian form of the name of the king Artaxerxes...
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    Settings of Artaserse (1730)", Discourses in Music, vol. 6 no. 1, (Summer 2006). Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pietro Metastasio. Wikiquote has...
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  • 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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    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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    Venetian Carnival of 1730, where his opera Artaserse was performed at S Giovanni Grisostomo. Metastasio's libretto was heavily reworked for the occasion...
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    Artaserse is an opera in three acts by the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček, set to a popular libretto (or dramma per musica) by Metastasio that was originally...
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    in Rome) – libretto by Metastasio Artaserse (Rome, 1749) – libretto by Metastasio Demetrio (Parma, 1749) – libretto by Metastasio Intermezzo Don Trastullo...
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    Semiramide (Il finto Nino, overo La Semiramide riconosciuta) in 1737, Artaserse in 1738, Seleuco with Russian translation by Sumarokov, premiered in Moscow...
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    1742) Artaserse, libretto by Metastasio (3 acts, 1743) Catone in Utica, libretto by Metastasio (3 acts, 1743) Alessandro e Poro, libretto by Metastasio (3...
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    first opera Artaserse was performed on 26 December 1741, dedicated to Otto Ferdinand von Abensberg und Traun. Set to a libretto by Metastasio, the opera...
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    La Betulia liberata (1734) text by Metastasio Gioas re di Giuda (1735) (Joash, King of Judah) text by Metastasio La Maria lebbrosa (1739) The following...
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  • Venice) Achille in Sciro (libretto by Pietro Metastasio, opera seria, 1739) Artaserse (libretto by Pietro Metastasio, opera seria, 1741, Verona) Statira (libretto...
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    opere serie, for which his librettists included the poet and dramatist Metastasio, were also widely popular. Throughout his career Galuppi held official...
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    short period, as he also died just five months later. Artaserse (opera seria, libretto by Metastasio, 1741, Verona; in collaboration with Pietro Chiarini)...
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    Didone abbandonata (1739) Catone in Utica on a libretto by Metastasio (1740) Bajazet (1743) Artaserse (1744) Ipermestra (1748) Ciro riconosciuto (1748) L'Olimpiade...
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    the way, the genre only truly came to fruition due to Metastasio and later composers. Metastasio's career began with the serenata Gli orti esperidi ("The...
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    Thucydides' Historiae. Artaserse, Temistocle, Palmide (lover of Temistocle), Eraclea (daughter of Temistocle), Cambise (favourite of Artaserse, in love with Palmide)...
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    work was the first by the soon-to-be-famous Pietro Trapassi (known as Metastasio), who became a lifelong friend of the singer. Farinelli remarked that...
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  • 13 June Padua, Teatro Nuovo Artaserse Metastasio 13 August 1774 Naples, Teatro San Carlo Demofoonte (2nd version) Metastasio 20 January 1775 Naples, Teatro...
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    Teatro S. Lucia) Artaserse (Pietro Metastasio) (Autumn 1747, Florence, Teatro della Pergola) Semiramide riconosciuta' (Pietro Metastasio) (3 Feb. 1749,...
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    premiere of George Frideric Handel's Arianna in Creta. The librettist Pietro Metastasio described Scalzi as a "very unique singer" and likened his voice to that...
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    resident in Rome. Alessandro nell'Indie became Metastasio's second most popular work, after Artaserse. Both were written for the Rome carnival season...
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  • Venezia) Artaserse (dramma per musica, libretto di Pietro Metastasio, 1767, Praga) Didone (dramma per musica, libretto di Pietro Metastasio, 1768, Praga)...
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    Naples, never staged) Artaserse (opera seria, revision of the opera of the same name by Leonardo Vinci, libretto by Pietro Metastasio, 1743, Naples) Achille...
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  • ditattore - opera, libretto by Apostolo Zeno (1739, Graz) Artaserse - libretto by Pietro Metastasio (1748, Bonn) Il Vologeso - opera, libretto by Apostolo...
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    France in its Malherbe collection. The text is taken from Metastasio's libretto Artaserse which had been set to music by a number of composers, among...
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    L'Olimpiade (category Libretti by Metastasio)
    Europe". Indeed, it ranks with Metastasio's Demofoonte and Didone abbandonata, which were excelled in popularity only by Artaserse and Alessandro nell'Indie...
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    Francesco Bianchi (Turin, 1782) Timante in Demofoonte (Lucca, 1782) Arbace in Artaserse by Giacomo Rust (Rome, 1783) Quinto Fabio in Quinto Fabio by Luigi Cherubini...
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    text as the arias in the 1743 libretto. During the Carnival of 1744, his Artaserse was performed in Venice. Loewenberg states that this opera was given on...
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    Catone (Handel) (category Libretti by Metastasio)
    Theatre, Haymarket, London, on 4 November 1732. The libretto was written by Metastasio. A first version of his libretto was set to music by Leonardo Vinci whose...
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