Telemaco (Scarlatti)

Telemaco
Opera by Alessandro Scarlatti
Title page of the libretto
LibrettistCarlo Sigismondo Capece
LanguageItalian
Premiere
1718 (1718)

Telemaco, ossia L'isola di Circe is a 1718 opera by Alessandro Scarlatti to a libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece (sometimes spelled "Capeci"), court poet to Queen Maria Casimira of Poland, living in exile in Rome, for the Teatro Capranica in Rome, where it was premiered during the carnival season. The opera was revived in 2005 by the Schwetzingen Festival and the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.