La Betulia liberata (The Liberation of Bethulia / 1738 Bernasconi / @1734 Metastasio), oratorio (music), Vienna premiere
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La Betulia liberata <Italian> / The Liberation of Bethulia (1754) is an oratorio, set to music by Andrea Bernasconi.
~ Libretto by Pietro Metastasio; see La Betulia liberata (The Liberation of Bethulia / 1734 Metastasio), libretto. Based on the Book of Judith.
Abstract
The personages are Ozia, Chabri, Amital, Judith, Charmi, Achior, and Coro.
Performance history
Premiered in Vienna, Austria: 1738.
Revived in Munich, Germany: Teatro Nuovo di Corte, 30 March 1755. (or 1754)
- Ozia Mazzanti, Ferdinando <cantante>
- Giuditta Turbert, Maria Anna
- Amital Perprich, Giuseppa
- Achior Emiliani, Sebastiano
- Chabri Tracchini, Cristoforo
- Charmi Lucchi, Tommaso
Also performed in Munich in 1760 and 1775 and in Baden in 1762.
External links
Categories:
- 1738
- Fiction--1700s
- Fiction--Italian
- Music--1700s
- Music--Italian
- Oratorios
- Stage Productions
- Italian language--1700s
- Made in the 1730s
- Second Temple Studies--1700s
- Second Temple Studies--Fiction
- Second Temple Studies--Italian
- OT Apocrypha Studies--1700s
- OT Apocrypha Studies--Fiction
- OT Apocrypha Studies--Italian
- Judith (subject)
- Judith--fiction (subject)
- Judith--music (subject)