Claudio Cesare (Claudius Caesar / 1672 Boretti / Aureli), opera (music & libretto), Venice premiere

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Claudio Cesare <Italian> / Claudius Caesar (1672) is an opera ("drama per musica"), set to music by Giovanni Antonio Boretti.

~ Original libretto by Aurelio Aureli.

Abstract

An opera on the rise to power of Nero, with no reference to Christian Origins.

Characters

Editions

<Libretto> Published in Venice, Italy: Francesco Nicolini, 1672.

<Score> The ms. is preserved at the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in Venice. Italy.

Performance history

Premiered in Venice, Italy: Teatro Vendramino a San Salvatore, 1672. Also performed in Genoa, Italy: Teatro del Falcone, 1675; and in Naples, Italy: 1676.

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