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On Skyros, Achilles lives disguised as a princess to escape the coming Trojan War. His lover Deidamia, with whom he has a son, feigns madness to keep him on the island when Ulysses and Diomedes arrive seeking allies. Achilles and Deidamia marry and leave together.
Unfinished comic opera about Licori, who disguises herself first as a man and then as a woman and feigns madness to win her lover Aminta.
A sequel to La finta pazza, this opera uses a Latin story that looks toward the future founding of Rome.
At the request of an enamored shepherd, Pluto turns Pachino into a mountain and promises him a place in Elysium. Cupid’s arrow then makes Pluto fall for Proserpine, whom he claims as queen. When her protector Ciane is transformed into a spring, Proserpine submits; Pluto is softened by her beauty and promises to treat lovers less harshly.
During the Spanish siege of a Moorish fortress at Gibraltar, Queen Veremonda discovers that Spanish general Delio is secretly in love with Moorish queen Zelemina. Disguised as a soldier, Veremonda enters the citadel with Delio and delays his attempt to force himself on her. While the Moors attend a religious celebration, she opens the fortress to Spanish forces and her Amazons. The Spanish win, and Delio and the converted Zelemina marry.
On Skyros, Achilles lives disguised as a princess to escape the coming Trojan War. His lover Deidamia, with whom he has a son, feigns madness to keep him on the island when Ulysses and Diomedes arrive seeking allies. Achilles and Deidamia marry and leave together.
Unfinished comic opera about Licori, who disguises herself first as a man and then as a woman and feigns madness to win her lover Aminta.
A sequel to La finta pazza, this opera uses a Latin story that looks toward the future founding of Rome.
At the request of an enamored shepherd, Pluto turns Pachino into a mountain and promises him a place in Elysium. Cupid’s arrow then makes Pluto fall for Proserpine, whom he claims as queen. When her protector Ciane is transformed into a spring, Proserpine submits; Pluto is softened by her beauty and promises to treat lovers less harshly.
During the Spanish siege of a Moorish fortress at Gibraltar, Queen Veremonda discovers that Spanish general Delio is secretly in love with Moorish queen Zelemina. Disguised as a soldier, Veremonda enters the citadel with Delio and delays his attempt to force himself on her. While the Moors attend a religious celebration, she opens the fortress to Spanish forces and her Amazons. The Spanish win, and Delio and the converted Zelemina marry.