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The shepherd Aminta loves the nymph Silvia, who prefers hunting and rejects him. After he saves her from a satyr, she flees again; believing her dead after finding her blood-stained veil, Aminta tries to kill himself. Silvia returns remorseful, finds him alive, and they marry.
Based on Tasso’s epic poem, Salieri’s opera centers on the relationship between the sorceress Armida and the Crusader Rinaldo.
The sorceress Armida is sent to turn the Crusaders from their mission and enchants the knight Rinaldo, but she falls in love with him. Ubaldo and Clotarco try to free Rinaldo, while Zelmira also helps Clotarco. Rinaldo eventually returns to the crusader camp, cuts down the myrtle tree that holds Armida’s power, and prepares for battle as she vows to pursue him.
During the First Crusade, the sorceress Armide captures Christian knights. When she raises her dagger to kill their defender Renaud, she falls in love with him instead and uses magic to make him love her. Unable to bear that his feelings are enchanted, she asks the Goddess of Hate to restore her hatred, but cannot escape her love. Two of Renaud’s fellow soldiers arrive and break the spell. Renaud escapes, leaving Armide enraged and despairing.
Alessandro seeks the rightful heir to Sidon and discovers that the shepherd Aminta is its king. Aminta and Elisa love one another, while Alessandro proposes political marriages that would separate them and Tamiri from Agenore; after hearing the couples plead, he relents, allows both couples to marry, and crowns Aminta.
A three-act tragedy dramatizing an episode concerning Renaud and Armide from Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered.
A five-act French opera continuing the Armide story and drawing on Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered, whose subject is the defeat of Saracen forces by Christian armies. The entry does not provide the opera’s plot.
The huntress nymph Sylvia mocks Eros and wounds the shepherd Aminta when he protects the god. Eros revives Aminta, while hunter Orion abducts Sylvia; she escapes by getting Orion drunk and returns to Aminta. At Diana’s temple, the goddess ultimately relents and permits the lovers to unite.
The shepherd Aminta loves the nymph Silvia, who prefers hunting and rejects him. After he saves her from a satyr, she flees again; believing her dead after finding her blood-stained veil, Aminta tries to kill himself. Silvia returns remorseful, finds him alive, and they marry.
Based on Tasso’s epic poem, Salieri’s opera centers on the relationship between the sorceress Armida and the Crusader Rinaldo.
The sorceress Armida is sent to turn the Crusaders from their mission and enchants the knight Rinaldo, but she falls in love with him. Ubaldo and Clotarco try to free Rinaldo, while Zelmira also helps Clotarco. Rinaldo eventually returns to the crusader camp, cuts down the myrtle tree that holds Armida’s power, and prepares for battle as she vows to pursue him.
During the First Crusade, the sorceress Armide captures Christian knights. When she raises her dagger to kill their defender Renaud, she falls in love with him instead and uses magic to make him love her. Unable to bear that his feelings are enchanted, she asks the Goddess of Hate to restore her hatred, but cannot escape her love. Two of Renaud’s fellow soldiers arrive and break the spell. Renaud escapes, leaving Armide enraged and despairing.
Alessandro seeks the rightful heir to Sidon and discovers that the shepherd Aminta is its king. Aminta and Elisa love one another, while Alessandro proposes political marriages that would separate them and Tamiri from Agenore; after hearing the couples plead, he relents, allows both couples to marry, and crowns Aminta.
A three-act tragedy dramatizing an episode concerning Renaud and Armide from Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered.
A five-act French opera continuing the Armide story and drawing on Torquato Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered, whose subject is the defeat of Saracen forces by Christian armies. The entry does not provide the opera’s plot.
The huntress nymph Sylvia mocks Eros and wounds the shepherd Aminta when he protects the god. Eros revives Aminta, while hunter Orion abducts Sylvia; she escapes by getting Orion drunk and returns to Aminta. At Diana’s temple, the goddess ultimately relents and permits the lovers to unite.