Il Batista (John the Baptist / 1727 Caldara / Zeno), oratorio (music & libretto), Vienna premiere (cast)
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Il Batista <Italian> / John the Baptist (1727) is an oratorio, set to music by Antonio Caldara.
~ Original libretto by Apostolo Zeno.
Abstract
- Vocal: Erodiade (S), Salome (S), Un Discepolo (S), Batista (A), Erode (T), Illél (B); mixed chorus (SATB)
- Orchestra: strings, continuo
Cast (Vienna premiere)
- Gaetano Orsini = San Giovanni Batista / John the Baptist
- Francesco Borosini = Erode Antipa / Herod Antipas
- Barbara Pisani = Erodiade / Herodias
- Signora Helvertin = Salome
- Domenico Genovesi = Discepolo
- Christoph Praun = Illél
Editions
Published in Vienna, Austria: Gio. Pietro Van Ghelen, 1727.
Performance history
Premiered in Vienna, Austria: Hofkapelle, 27 March 1727.
External links
Categories:
- 1727
- Fiction--1700s
- Fiction--Italian
- Music--1700s
- Music--Italian
- Oratorios
- Librettos
- Stage Productions
- Cast
- Italian language--1700s
- Made in the 1720s
- Second Temple Studies--1700s
- Second Temple Studies--Fiction
- Second Temple Studies--Italian
- Christian Origins Studies--1700s
- Christian Origins Studies--Fiction
- Christian Origins Studies--Italian
- Death of John the Baptist (subject)
- John the Baptist (subject)
- John the Baptist--music (subject)
- Herodias--music (subject)
- Herod Antipas--music (subject)
- Salome--music (subject)