Statira principessa di Persia

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Statira principessa di Persia (Stateira, Princess of Persia) is an opera - more specifically, a dramma per musica - in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli, set to a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello. The opera was first performed in Venice at the Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo, on 18 January 1655 (possibly 1656). In the epistle dedicatory to the original libretto, Busenello explains the plot as follows:
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Librettist

Giovanni Francesco Busenello

Giovanni Francesco Busenello (b Venice, 24 Sept 1598; d Legnaro, nr Padua, 27 Oct 1659) was an Italian lawyer, librettist and poet of the 17th century. Born to a high-class Venetian family, it is thought that he studied at the University of Padua, where according to himself he was taught by Paolo...

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Francesco Cavalli

Francesco Cavalli (14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque period. His real name was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli, the name of his patron, a Venetian nobleman. Cavalli was born at Crema, Lombardy. He became a...
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