- Didone abbandonata
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Didone abbandonata is an opera libretto in 3 acts by Pietro Metastasio. It was his first original work and was set to music by Domenico Sarro in 1724. During the century that followed it was set more than 50 times by other composers such as Nicola Porpora (1725), Leonardo Vinci (1726), Baldassare Galuppi (1740), Johann Adolph Hasse (1742), Niccolò Jommelli (1747), Tommaso Traetta (1757), Giuseppe Sarti (1762), Niccolò Piccinni (1770), Saverio Mercadante (1823).
Roles
Character Description Didone (Dido) queen of Carthage, in love with Enea (Aeneas) Iarba king of the Moors, who appears as "Arbace" Selene sister of Dido and secretly in love with Aeneas Araspe confidant of Iarba and lover of Selene Osmida confidant of Dido Synopsis
The action takes place at Carthage.
External links
Categories:- Libretti by Metastasio
- Opera stubs
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