Nerone fatto Cesare is a lost dramma per musica by Antonio Vivaldi.
The opera was first performed at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice during Carnival in 1715. It was revived (with many new arias) for the Accademia, Brescia, at the 1716 Carnival.
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Nerone fatto Cesare
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Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 – July 28, 1741), nicknamed il Prete Rosso ("The Red Priest"), was a baroque composer and Venetian priest, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist, born and raised in the Republic of Venice. The Four Seasons, a series of four violin concerti, is his best-known...
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