Achille in Sciro

Achille in Sciro is an opera and libretto by Pietro Metastasio telling the story of Achilles on Skyros. It was first set to music by Antonio Caldara in 1736, and premiered at the wedding of Maria Theresa and Francis of Lorraine in Vienna.[1] In 1772, Johann Anton Koch translated the libretto to German under the name "Achilles in Scyro".

  1. ^ Italian Opera in Central Europe 1614 Melania Bucciarelli, Norbert Dubowy, Reinhard Strohm - 2006 -3830503814 1780 - Page 252 "Plot and occasion Metastasio's Achille in Sciro was first performed in Vienna on 13 February 1736 for the wedding of Princess Maria ...Shortly after, in 1737, the composer Sarri used the same libretto for the inauguration of the Teatro S. Carlo in Naples.1 ... Venice (1739, Chiarini), Turin (1740, Leo) and Madrid (1744, Corselli) before Hasse composed the music for another ... “Tre intonazioni dell'Achille in Sciro a confronto: Caldara, Leo, Hasse”, Il Saggiatore Musicale, 3 (1996), p.