Tito Vespasiano; ovvero, La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus / 1735 Hasse / @1734 Metastasio), opera (music), Pesaro premiere (cast)
Tito Vespasiano; ovvero, La clemenza di Tito <Italian> / Titus Vespasian; or, The Clemency of Titus (1735) is an opera, set to music by Johann Adolph Hasse.
~ Libretto by Pietro Metastasio; see La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus / 1734 Metastasio), libretto (opera)
Abstract
Yet another operatic version of Metastasio's libretto. Hasse continued to rework on the music, presenting a 2nd version of the opera in Dresden (1738), and a 3rd version in Naples (1759).
Cast
- Angelo Amorevoli (1716-1798) = Titus
Editions
Published in Pesaro, Italy: Niccolò Gavelli, 1735.
Performance history
Premiered in Pesaro, Italy: Teatro Pubblico, 24 September 1735. Also in Vyškov, Czech Republic, June 1736.
Revised and revived in Dresden, Germany: Court Theatre, 17 January 1738 (2nd ed.).
- La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus / 1738 / @1734 Metastasio), Verona production (opera) with Francesco Tolve (Titus) April 1738 Teatro Filarmonico
Hamburg, Germany: Oper am Gänsemarkt, 8 December 1745.
Revived in Naples, Italy: 20 January 1759 (3rd ed.).
Verona, Italy: Teatro Filarmonico, Carnival 1773.