Atenaide (Vivaldi)

Atenaide
Opera by Antonio Vivaldi
Libretto title page
LibrettistApostolo Zeno
LanguageItalian
Premiere
29 December 1728 (1728-12-29)

Atenaide (RV 702) is an opera by Antonio Vivaldi to a revised edition of a 1709 libretto by Apostolo Zeno for Caldara.[1] It was first performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence on 29 December 1728 for the 1729 Carnival season.[2]

Roles

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Roles, voice types, premiere cast
Role Voice type Premiere cast:[3]
29 December 1728, Florence
Teodosio II, emperor, in love with Atenaide soprano castrato Gaetano Valletta
Atenaide (also called Eudossa), Leontino's daughter soprano Giustina Turcotti
Pulcheria, Teodosio's sister contralto Anna Girò
Varane, son of Isdegarde (King of Persia), also in love with Atenaide contralto Lisabetta Moro
Leontino [de] tenor Annibal Pio Fabbri
Marziano, general of Teodosio, in love with Pulcheria contralto Anna Maria Faini
Probo, praetorian prefect, also in love with Pulcheria tenor Gaetano Baroni

Recordings

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References

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  1. ^ Julie Anne Sadie, Companion to Baroque Music 1998, p. 259: "... by Charles VI, for whom he had provided two librettos during his residence in Barcelona as Charles III the Pretender; Atenaide (1709) and Scipione nelle Spagne (c1710) were collaboratively set by A. S. Fiore, Antonio Caldara and Gasparini."
  2. ^ "Work details", Corago, University of Bologna
  3. ^ "Libretto (1729)", p. 5
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