Ormindo

Francesco Cavalli

L'Ormindo is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli to an original Italian libretto by Giovanni Faustini. The manuscript score is held at the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice,[1] while a copy of the original libretto has been digitized by the Library of Congress.[2] The opera has set numbers with recitative, and is set in Anfa (Casablanca), in the Mauri kingdom of Fessa (Fez).

  1. ^ The score is offered digitally at Internet Culturale
  2. ^ Giovanni Faustini, L'Ormindo. Favola regia per musica, Venice, Miloco, 1644.