Zenobia e Radamisto

Zenobia e Radamisto
Opera by Giovanni Legrenzi

Front page of the libretto printed for the 1669 performance in Macerata
Librettist Ippolito Bentivoglio
Premiere 1 June 1665 (1665-06-01)
Teatro Bonacossi, Ferrara

Zenobia e Radamisto is an opera in 3 acts and nine scenes by composer Giovanni Legrenzi. The opera uses an Italian language libretto by Ippolito Bentivoglio (1611-1685). The third opera written by Legrenzi, the work premiered on 1 June 1665 at the Teatro Bonacossi in Ferrara in celebration of the marriage of Nicolò Santini and Maria Luisa Bonvisi.[1][2] The opera was subsequently mounted in Brescia (1666), Verona (1667), and Macerata (1669).[3]

Legrenzi revised the work for the Venice premiere of the opera at the Teatro San Salvatore on 26 December 1667. The revised opera also utilized an altered version of Bentivoglio's libretto by Niccolò Minato.[1] In 2013 the Italian Academy of Musical Research published the original 1665 version of the libretto and the first critical edition of the score.[2]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Zenobia e Radamisto". Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia. Retrieved June 13, 2015.
  2. 1 2 Giovanni Legrenzi and Ippolito Bentivoglio (2013). Stefano Faglia and Maria Franca Saini, ed. Zenobia and Radamisto. Music Academy IAMR.
  3. Eleanor Selfridge-Field (2007). A New Chronology of Venetian Opera and Related Genres, 1660-1760. Stanford University Press. p. 84.

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