Orlando furioso (Vivaldi, 1714)

Orlando furioso
Orlando furioso
Opera by Antonio Vivaldi
	Orlando furioso (1714), title page of the libretto.
Librettist	Grazio Braccioli
Language	Italian
Premiere	1714; Teatro Sant'Angelo, Venice

Orlando furioso RV 819 (Italian pronunciation: [orˈlando fuˈrjoːzo, -so], Teatro San Angelo, Venice 1714) is a three-act opera surviving in manuscript in Antonio Vivaldi's personal library, only partly related to his better known Orlando furioso (RV 728) of 1727. It is a recomposition of an Orlando furioso written by Giovanni Alberto Ristori which had been very successfully staged by Vivaldi and his father's impresa in 1713, and whose music survives in a few fragments retained in the score of RV 819.^[1] Therefore, Vivaldi's first cataloguer Peter Ryom did not assign the opera a RV number, but catalogued it as RV Anh. 84. The libretto was by Grazio Braccioli.

^ Opera & Vivaldi Michael B. Collins, Elise Kuhl Kirk - 1984 "Beyond any doubt, Vivaldi took two arias — "Come l'onda" and "Anderò, chiamerò dal profondo" — from his 1714 work Orlando furioso and reused them in his 1727 opera. These texts are not found in Ristori's 1713 Orlando furioso,"

[1] Opera & Vivaldi Michael B. Collins, Elise Kuhl Kirk - 1984 "Beyond any doubt, Vivaldi took two arias — "Come l'onda" and "Anderò, chiamerò dal profondo" — from his 1714 work Orlando furioso and reused them in his 1727 opera. These texts are not found in Ristori's 1713 Orlando furioso,"

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