Libretto printed for the 1683 production at the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice
Librettist
Giacinto Andrea Cicognini
Premiere
19 February 1656 (1656-02-19)
Hoftheater, Innsbruck
Orontea is an opera in a prologue and three acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini (revised by Giovanni Filippo Apolloni).
Orontea is an opera in a prologue and three acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini (revised by Giovanni...
these were La Dori (Innsbruck, 1657), Il pomo d'oro (Vienna, 1668) and Orontea (1656). Il pomo d'oro (The Golden Apple) was written for the wedding in...
complete works, published in Vienna Pietro Cavalli – Jason Antonio Cesti – Orontea, premiered at the Teatro Santissimi Apostoli, in Venice, during Carnivale...
launching her career. Her professional debut, in 1979, was as Amor in Orontea at the music festival in Batignano. She subsequently sang, in 1980, Alice...
Ariosto's Orlando Furioso contains a country of warrior women, ruled by Queen Orontea; the epic describes an origin much like that in Greek myth, in that the...
was Marc'Antonio Cesti, who still further reduced the orchestra, as in Orontea (1649) and Cesare amante (1651). He performed some operas for the emperor...
Poppea (1980) Stefano Landi: Il Sant' Alessio (1981) Pietro Antonio Cesti: Orontea (1982) Georg Friedrich Handel: Ariodante (1982) Pietro Antonio Cesti: Il...
welcoming Queen Christina of Sweden on her journey to Rome. For Cesti's opera Orontea, performed in Innsbruck in 1656, Apolloni revised the original libretto...
husband, Peter Coleman-Wright, as Jupiter – Australian première 2022: Orontea (1656) by Antonio Cesti, Australian premiere 2023: Membra Jesu Nostri (1680)...
Faculty. Past "Baroque Opera: Young" productions have included Cesti's Orontea, Lully's Armide, and a double-bill of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Blow's...
Handel repertoire, Matthias Rexroth performed Corindo in Antonio Cesti's Orontea under Ivor Bolton (2014) at the Frankfurt opera, Nibbio in Giambattista...
His most famous works are Giasone (set to music by Cavalli, 1649) and Orontea (set to music by Lucio, 1649 and Cesti, 1656), which were to become the...
Der Rattenfänger, Der Riese von Steinfeld Antonio Cesti (1623–1669): Orontea, Il pomo d'oro Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894): Briséïs, Une éducation manquée...
Jennifer Williams (November 2000). "'Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen': Cesti, Orontea, and the Gelone Problem", p. 205. Cambridge Opera Journal, Vol. 12, No...
Handel at EMI), Jordi Savall (Motets by Delalande), René Jacobs (Cesti's Orontea and Cavalli's Xerse at Harmonia Mundi). She played the role of Armida in...
only) 1981 Anthologie D'airs de la Cour (2LP only) 1982 Antonio Cesti Orontea 3LP 1982 Schütz Kleine Geistliche Konzerte 1982 Luca Marenzio, Madrigaux...
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