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  Medonte, re di Epiro ("Medonte, King of Epirus") is an opera seria in three acts by Giuseppe Sarti. The libretto was by Giovanni de Gamerra. It was first performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence on 8 September 1777. The opera was very successful in its time. Medonte, re di Epiro by Marita...
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  Alcina

  Alcina (HWV 34) is an opera seria by George Frideric Handel. The libretto's author is unknown, but the plot is taken (like those of the Handel operas Orlando and Ariodante) from Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando furioso, an epic poem set in the time of Charlemagne's wars against Islam. The opera contains...
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  Giulio Sabino

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  La Cleopatra

  La Cleopatra (1789) is an opera seria in two acts by composer Domenico Cimarosa with an Italian libretto by F. Moretti. La Cleopatra was commissioned by Queen Catherine II in 1788. Cimarosa and Moretti were instructed to keep the opera short and give it a relatively simple plot. As a result, the...
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  Armida

  Armida is an opera seria by Antonio Sacchini set to a libretto by Jacopo Durandi, originally based on the epic poem by Torquato Tasso. The opera was first performed at the Milanese Carnival of 1772. In Armida, Sacchini incorporated many elements of French opera, including frequent use of chorus,...

• The Bassarids

  The Bassarids (in German, Die Bassariden) is an opera in one act and an intermezzo, with music Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, after Euripides's The Bacchae. The conflict in the opera is between human rationality and emotional control, represented by the...

• Ariodante

  Ariodante (HWV 33) is an opera seria in three acts by Handel. The anonymous Italian libretto was based on a work by Antonio Salvi, which in turn was adapted from Canti 5 and 6 of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. Each act contains opportunities for dance, originally composed for dancer Marie...

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  Gabriella di Vergy is an opera seria in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti (1826, revised 1838), from a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola, based on the tragedy Gabrielle de Vergy (1777) by Dormont De Belloy. The play was itself inspired by two French medieval legends, Le châtelain de Coucy et la dame de...