Trionfo di Afrodite | |
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Scenic cantata by Carl Orff | |
Description | concerto scenico |
Translation | Triumph of Aphrodite |
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Based on | wedding poems by Catullus, Sappho and Euripides |
Premiere | 14 February 1953 La Scala, Milan |
Trionfo di Afrodite (Italian for Triumph of Aphrodite) is a cantata written in 1951 by the German composer Carl Orff. It is the third and final installment in the Trionfi musical triptych, which also includes Carmina Burana (1937) and Catulli Carmina (1943).