Atenaide (Vivaldi)

Atenaide
Opera by Antonio Vivaldi
Libretto title page
LibrettistApostolo Zeno
LanguageItalian
Premiere
29 December 1728 (1728-12-29)

Atenaide (RV 702) is an opera by Antonio Vivaldi to a revised edition of a 1709 libretto by Apostolo Zeno for Caldara.[1] It was first performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence on 29 December 1728 for the 1729 Carnival season.[2]

  1. ^ Julie Anne Sadie, Companion to Baroque Music 1998, p. 259: "... by Charles VI, for whom he had provided two librettos during his residence in Barcelona as Charles III the Pretender; Atenaide (1709) and Scipione nelle Spagne (c1710) were collaboratively set by A. S. Fiore, Antonio Caldara and Gasparini."
  2. ^ "Work details", Corago, University of Bologna