The Roman Unrest, or The Noble-Minded Octavia (German: Die römische unruhe, oder Die edelmütige Octavia), commonly called Octavia. Three part tragic opera by Reinhard Keiser, libretto by Barthold Feind.
Response to Handel's now-lost Nero, using the same period, material and plot but with Feind substantially improving the libretto. It unites the insidious machinations of the mad emperor Nero, including the assassination plots against his stepsiste...
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Octavia
Composition
Composer
Reinhard Keiser
Reinhard Keiser (9 January 1674 – 12 September 1739) was a popular German opera composer based in Hamburg. He wrote over a hundred operas, and in 1745 Johann Adolph Scheibe considered him an equal to Johann Kuhnau, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann (also related to the Hamburg Opera...