Farnace (Italian spelling for Pharnaces), is the title of several Baroque operas to the same libretto by Antonio Maria Lucchini. The libretto was initially set by Leonardo Vinci during 1724.
Farnace, with music by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), received its first performance in 1727 at the San Angelo theater in Venice. Popular at the time, Vivaldi's Farnace (RV 711) slipped into oblivion until the last quarter of the 20th century w...
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Farnace (Italian spelling for Pharnaces), is the title of several Baroque operas to the same libretto by Antonio Maria Lucchini. The libretto was initially set by Leonardo Vinci during 1724.
Farnace, with music by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), received its first performance in 1727 at the San Angelo theater in Venice. Popular at the time, Vivaldi's Farnace (RV 711) slipped into oblivion until the last quarter of the 20th century when it emerged from obscurity.
The third Farnace was composed by Francesco Corselli (1705-1778) (who was born in France as François Courcelle). Corselli's Farnace received its debut in Madrid at the Royal Theater of the Buen Retiro in 1739. Additional settings continued to be composed as late as the 1780's. One of the best of the later settings is the one composed by Josef Mysliveček for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples in 1767. Nonetheless, it is mainly the Vivaldi setting that continues to attract interest today.
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