Mutio Scevola

Francesco Cavalli

Operas Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo (1639) Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne (1640) La Didone (1641) La virtù dei strali d'Amore (1642) Egisto (1643) L'Ormindo (1644) Doriclea (1645) Il Giasone (1649) Orimonte (1650) Oristeo (1651) La Calisto (1652) Eritrea (1652) Veremonda (1652) Rosinda (1653) Orione (1653) Ciro (1654) Xerse (1655) Statira principessa di Persia (1655) Erismena (1655) Artemisia (1657) Hipermestra (1658) Elena (1659) Ercole amante (1662) Scipione affricano (1664) Mutio Scevola (1665) Pompeo Magno (1666) Eliogabalo (1667)

Mutio Scevola or Muzio Scevola (Mucius Scaevola) is an opera in three acts and a prologue by the Italian composer Francesco Cavalli, with a libretto by Giovanni Faustini. It was based on the story of the Roman hero, Gaius Mucius Scaevola. The opera was first performed at the Teatro San Samuele, Venice on 26 January 1665 and revived in Bologna in 1667.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, 26 February 1665 (Conductor: – )
Muzio Scevola	tenor
Orazio	soprano
Porsenna	tenor
Publicola	bass
Melvio	contralto
Tarquinio	bass
Valeria	soprano
Elisa	soprano
Vitellia	soprano
Ismeno	bass
Clodio	contralto
Floro	soprano
Porfiria	contralto
Milo	contralto
Publio	tenor
La statua di Giano	bass
Pallade	contralto
Venere	indefinite
Two vestal virgins	backing singers

References

Sources

Brenac, Jean-Claude, Le magazine de l'opéra baroque online at perso.orange.fr Retrieved 9 September 2011

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