Calliroe
An Italian opera seria by Antonio Sacchini, set to a libretto by Mattia Verazi and first performed at Schloss Ludwigsburg in 1770.
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An Italian opera seria by Antonio Sacchini, set to a libretto by Mattia Verazi and first performed at Schloss Ludwigsburg in 1770.
In ancient Tyre, Europa is abducted by Asterio of Crete and presumed lost. When the pair are captured after a shipwreck, Europa reveals her identity and claim to the throne, defeating Egisto’s bid for power; she then cedes the crown and marries her former fiancé Isséo and Semele.
Gian Francesco de Majo’s three-act opera, commissioned by Elector Palatine Carl Theodor, is a distinct setting of Ifigenia in Tauride. The available text does not provide a plot summary.
Italian opera seria based on Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris.
An Italian opera seria in three acts by Josef Mysliveček, setting Mattia Verazi’s libretto based on legends about the Oceanid Callirrhoe.
In Persia, Themistocles and his son Neocles arrive incognito in Susa after exile from Athens. His daughter Aspasia, who loves the Athenian ambassador Lysimachus, has also reached the city after a shipwreck. Once their identities and circumstances are revealed, King Xerxes pardons them, unites the lovers, and makes peace with Athens.
An Italian opera seria by Antonio Sacchini, set to a libretto by Mattia Verazi and first performed at Schloss Ludwigsburg in 1770.
In ancient Tyre, Europa is abducted by Asterio of Crete and presumed lost. When the pair are captured after a shipwreck, Europa reveals her identity and claim to the throne, defeating Egisto’s bid for power; she then cedes the crown and marries her former fiancé Isséo and Semele.
Gian Francesco de Majo’s three-act opera, commissioned by Elector Palatine Carl Theodor, is a distinct setting of Ifigenia in Tauride. The available text does not provide a plot summary.
Italian opera seria based on Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris.
An Italian opera seria in three acts by Josef Mysliveček, setting Mattia Verazi’s libretto based on legends about the Oceanid Callirrhoe.
In Persia, Themistocles and his son Neocles arrive incognito in Susa after exile from Athens. His daughter Aspasia, who loves the Athenian ambassador Lysimachus, has also reached the city after a shipwreck. Once their identities and circumstances are revealed, King Xerxes pardons them, unites the lovers, and makes peace with Athens.