Silla (Handel)

For Mozart's treatment of the same subject, see Lucio Silla. For Roman general and statesman, see Sulla. For the opera by Graun, see Silla (Graun).

George Frideric Handel

Silla (full title Lucio Cornelio Silla, HWV 10) is an opera seria (referred to as a dramma per musica) in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Giacomo Rossi. The story concerns the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138–78 BC) as recounted by Plutarch.

The opera appears to have been a pièce d'occasion, which may have been performed only once. The music was recycled in Handel's later opera Amadigi di Gaula.