La fortezza al cimento (Nero / 1699 Aldrovandini / Silvani), opera (music & libretto), Venice premiere

La fortezza al cimento <Italian> / Nero (1699) is an opera, set to music by Giuseppe Aldrovandini.

~ Original libretto by Francesco Silvani (1660-1735c).

Abstract

The libretto was popular. It was set to music by other composers, including Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (1707), Francesco Mancini (1727), Antonio Vivaldi (1726), Giuseppe Bencini (1727) and Egidio Duni (1735).

Characters

• Nero
• Mithridates

Editions

Published in Venice, Italy: Niccolini, 1699.

Adaptations

• La fortezza al cimento (Nero / 1707 Albinoni / @1699 Silvani), opera (music), Piacenza premiere

• La fortezza al cimento (Nero / 1721 Mancini / @1699 Silvani), opera (music), Naples premiere

• La tirannia gastigata = La fortezza al cimento (Nero / 1726 Vivaldi, Guerra / @1699 Silvani), Prague opera (music), premiere

• Il Nerone = La fortezza al cimento (Nero / 1727 Bencini / @1699 Silvani), opera (music), Florence premiere

• Nerone = La fortezza al cimento (Nero / 1735 Duni / @1699 Silvani), opera (music), Rome premiere

Performance history

Premiered in Venice, Italy: Teatro di S. Salvatore, 1699. Repeated in Bologna, Italy: Teatro Pubblico, 1710.

External links

• [ Wiki.en]