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    Solimano is a Baroque opera in three acts by Davide Perez (1711–1778). A first version was premiered for the carnival in 1757 in the Palace of Ajuda in...
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    Astarto (1743), Merope (1744), La clemenza di Tito (1749), Demofoonte (1752), Olimpiade (1754), Solimano (1757). Other representatives of the Neapolitan...
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  • Issipile opera seria 3 acts Metastasio 1 October 1732 Naples Siroe, re di Persia opera seria 3 acts Metastasio 2 May 1733; second version: 1763 Bologna;...
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  • Mantran, Robert (1998). La vita quotidiana a Constantinopoli ai tempi di Solimano il Magnifico e dei suoi successori (XVI e XVII secolo) (in Italian) (3 ed...
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    London 1785: London Artaserse is based on the life of king Artaxerxes I of Persia, a ruler of the fifth century B.C., son of Xerxes I. Seeing King Serse I's...
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  • Ormindo, Mutio Scevola, Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo, Pompeo Magno, Rosinda, Scipione affricano, Statira principessa di Persia, Veremonda, La virtù de' strali...
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    Siroe (Hasse) (category Operas set in ancient Persia)
    Siroe, or Siroe re di Persia (Siroes, King of Persia), is an opera seria in three acts by Johann Adolph Hasse. The libretto was by Metastasio. As with...
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    of Alfred is a "lively da capo aria di bravura." "Là per l'ombrosa sponda!", found in Vincenzo Ciampi's Trionfo di Camilla is another example of virtuoso...
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