Didone abbandonata (Vinci)

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Didone abbandonata
Opera by Leonardo Vinci
Librettist Metastasio
LanguageItalian
Based on Didone abbandonata
Premiere
1726 (1726)
Leonardo Vinci , Didone abbandonata, title page of the libretto, Rome, 1726. Leonardo Vinci - Didone abbandonata - titlepage of the libretto - Rome 1726.png
Leonardo Vinci , Didone abbandonata, title page of the libretto, Rome, 1726.

Didone abbandonata is a setting by Leonardo Vinci of the libretto Didone abbandonata by Metastasio first set to music by Domenico Sarro in 1724. It was premiered at the Teatro delle Dame for the 1726 Carnival season in Rome. [1]

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  1. Reinhard Strohm Essays on Handel and Italian Opera 2008-p 213 0521088356 - Vinci's Didone abbandonata (Rome 1726) : LEONARDO VINCI (1696-1730) had enormous success as an opera- composer during his life, and posterity has, for once, confirmed rather than denied this success. "