Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne
This opera by Francesco Cavalli concerns Apollo's love for the nymph Daphne, following the account in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
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This opera by Francesco Cavalli concerns Apollo's love for the nymph Daphne, following the account in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
In Rome around AD 60, Poppea’s affair with Emperor Nerone displaces both his wife Ottavia and her former lover Ottone. Seneca warns Nerone against divorcing Ottavia and marrying Poppea, so Nerone orders Seneca to commit suicide. Ottavia then orders Ottone to kill Poppea, but Cupid prevents the attempt. When Ottone confesses and takes the blame to protect Drusilla, Nerone spares them but banishes them and Ottavia. Nerone crowns Poppea empress, and they celebrate their union in a duet.
Cavalli and Busenello adapt Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid but replace Dido’s suicide after Aeneas leaves her with a happy ending: Iarbas, king of the Getuli, saves Dido from herself and marries her. The opera is structured as a prologue and three acts.
The King of Armenia captures Stateira and her mother during a war with Darius of Persia. Cloridaspis, King of Arabia and in love with Stateira, frees them and returns them to Darius; Stateira tends the wounded Arab king and falls in love with him. Usimano, an Egyptian prince disguised as Stateira's servant Ermosilla, grows jealous; by the end, Stateira marries Cloridaspis and relinquishes the Persian throne, while Usimano marries Floralba.
This opera by Francesco Cavalli concerns Apollo's love for the nymph Daphne, following the account in Ovid's Metamorphoses.
In Rome around AD 60, Poppea’s affair with Emperor Nerone displaces both his wife Ottavia and her former lover Ottone. Seneca warns Nerone against divorcing Ottavia and marrying Poppea, so Nerone orders Seneca to commit suicide. Ottavia then orders Ottone to kill Poppea, but Cupid prevents the attempt. When Ottone confesses and takes the blame to protect Drusilla, Nerone spares them but banishes them and Ottavia. Nerone crowns Poppea empress, and they celebrate their union in a duet.
Cavalli and Busenello adapt Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid but replace Dido’s suicide after Aeneas leaves her with a happy ending: Iarbas, king of the Getuli, saves Dido from herself and marries her. The opera is structured as a prologue and three acts.
The King of Armenia captures Stateira and her mother during a war with Darius of Persia. Cloridaspis, King of Arabia and in love with Stateira, frees them and returns them to Darius; Stateira tends the wounded Arab king and falls in love with him. Usimano, an Egyptian prince disguised as Stateira's servant Ermosilla, grows jealous; by the end, Stateira marries Cloridaspis and relinquishes the Persian throne, while Usimano marries Floralba.