Artaserse (Hasse)
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| Opera by Johann Adolph Hasse | |
Title page of the original libretto for Hasse's first setting of the work
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| Librettist | Pietro Metastasio (adapted by G. Boldini) |
| Premiere | 11 February 1730 Teatro di San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice |
Artaserse is an opera (dramma per musica) in three acts composed by Johann Adolph Hasse to an Italian libretto adapted from that by Metastasio by Giovanni Boldini. It premiered at the Teatro di San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice on 11 February 1730, shortly after the libretto's first setting by Leonardo Vinci premiered in Rome 6 days earlier. Metastasio's libretto, Artaserse, has been used in more than 90 works. Hasse himself would later re-work the score for performances at the Opernhaus am Zwinger in Dresden (1740) and the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples (1760).
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