Il palazzo incantato (The Enchanted Palace) or Il Palagio d’Atlante, o vero La guerriera amante (Atlante's Palace, or The Warrior Woman in Love) is an opera in a prologue and three acts by the Italian composer Luigi Rossi. The libretto, by Giulio Rospigliosi, is based on Ariosto's Orlando furioso. It was first performed in Rome in a lavish production at the Palazzo Barberini on 22 February 1642. Rossi was criticised for giving too much music to h...
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Il palazzo incantato (The Enchanted Palace) or Il Palagio d’Atlante, o vero La guerriera amante (Atlante's Palace, or The Warrior Woman in Love) is an opera in a prologue and three acts by the Italian composer Luigi Rossi. The libretto, by Giulio Rospigliosi, is based on Ariosto's Orlando furioso. It was first performed in Rome in a lavish production at the Palazzo Barberini on 22 February 1642. Rossi was criticised for giving too much music to his friend, the castrato Marc'Antonio Pasqualini, who played Bradamante, at the expense of the other roles. Some of the highly complicated stage machinery failed to work during the performance too.
The magician Atlante captures Christian and pagan knights and ladies in his enchanted palace of illusions. Orlando, Ferraù and Sacripante enter the palace in search of Angelica. Bradamante seeks Ruggiero and, finding him with Angelica, vows to kill him in a fit of jealous rage. But Atlante calms things by reminding Angelica of her love for Medoro....
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