Amor d’un’ombra e gelosia d’un’aura
A three-act opera drawing on Ovid’s fables of Echo and Narcissus and Cephalus and Procris.
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A three-act opera drawing on Ovid’s fables of Echo and Narcissus and Cephalus and Procris.
An opera by Fernando Sor based on the story of Telemachus on the island of Calypso.
Ignaz Holzbauer’s three-act opera was commissioned by Elector Carl Theodor for the opening of the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in June 1753.
The knight Orlando loves Angelica, who loves Medoro, while the shepherdess Dorinda also loves Medoro. When Orlando discovers the lovers’ relationship, jealousy drives him into madness. The magician Zoroastro protects Angelica and Medoro and restores Orlando’s reason. Orlando accepts their love and wishes them happiness, and Dorinda joins the celebration.
Intrigues and complications surround Telemachus, son of Odysseus. The libretto draws on Homer’s Odyssey and François Fénelon’s didactic novel Les Aventures de Télémaque.
A three-act dramma per musica about the love affair between Berenice of Cilicia and the future emperor Titus. The opera ends with Berenice’s entirely fictitious marriage to Antiochus, King of Commagene.
Domenico Scarlatti’s Italian-language opera was composed for Queen Maria Casimira of Poland and premiered at Palazzo Zuccari in Rome in 1711.
A three-act opera drawing on Ovid’s fables of Echo and Narcissus and Cephalus and Procris.
An opera by Fernando Sor based on the story of Telemachus on the island of Calypso.
Ignaz Holzbauer’s three-act opera was commissioned by Elector Carl Theodor for the opening of the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen in June 1753.
The knight Orlando loves Angelica, who loves Medoro, while the shepherdess Dorinda also loves Medoro. When Orlando discovers the lovers’ relationship, jealousy drives him into madness. The magician Zoroastro protects Angelica and Medoro and restores Orlando’s reason. Orlando accepts their love and wishes them happiness, and Dorinda joins the celebration.
Intrigues and complications surround Telemachus, son of Odysseus. The libretto draws on Homer’s Odyssey and François Fénelon’s didactic novel Les Aventures de Télémaque.
A three-act dramma per musica about the love affair between Berenice of Cilicia and the future emperor Titus. The opera ends with Berenice’s entirely fictitious marriage to Antiochus, King of Commagene.
Domenico Scarlatti’s Italian-language opera was composed for Queen Maria Casimira of Poland and premiered at Palazzo Zuccari in Rome in 1711.