First performance 18 January 1655 Language Italian | Composer Francesco Cavalli | |
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Librettist Giovanni Francesco Busenello Similar L'Oristeo, Erismena, Le nozze di Teti e di P, Veremonda, Rosinda | ||
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 1656.
Synopsis
In the epistle dedicatory to the original libretto, Busenello explains the plot as follows:
References
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