| Castore e Polluce | |
|---|---|
| Opera seria by Francesco Bianchi | |
.jpg) The composer in 1805 | |
| Librettist | Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni |
| Language | Italian |
| Based on | Pierre-Joseph Bernard's libretto for Castor et Pollux |
| Premiere | 10 January 1779 Teatro della Pergola, Florence |
Castore e Polluce (Castor and Pollux) is an opera seria by Francesco Bianchi. The libretto was one translated by Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, from Pierre-Joseph Bernard's French text for Rameau's Castor et Pollux.
The opera was extravagantly in the French style. As Marita P. McClymonds explains, "Castore contains all the elements that had been purged from Italian serious opera before the turn of the century: gods appearing in machines, miraculous scene changes, arias without exit, much use of chorus, and an infernal scene in the underworld with dancing."[1]
- ^ McClymonds, Marita P. (1992), "Castore e Polluce" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, vol. 4, p. 1224 ISBN 0-333-73432-7