Il Pompeo

Il Pompeo is a dramma per musica in three acts by composer Alessandro Scarlatti. Written in 1682 when Scarlatti was 22 years old, it was his fourth opera and first dramatic work on a serious and grand subject. The opera uses an Italian language libretto by Nicolò Minato which had previously been used by Francesco Cavalli for his 1666 opera Pompeo Magno. The work premiered at the Teatro di Palazzo Colonna in Rome on 25 January 1683.[1]

Il Pompeo
Opera by Alessandro Scarlatti
The composer as a young man
LibrettistNicolò Minato
LanguageItalian
Premiere
25 January 1683 (1683-01-25)
Teatro di Palazzo Colonna, Rome

Roles
Role[2] Voice type[2] Premiere cast
25 January 1683
Pompeotenor
Giulio Cesarebass
Giulia, daughter of Giulio Cesarecontralto castrato travesti
Scipione Servilio, loved by Giuliasoprano castrato
Mitridatetenor
Issicratea, Mitridate's wifesoprano castrato travesti
Sesto, son of Pompeoalto castrato
Claudio, son of Giulio Cesaresoprano castrato
Harpalia, Issicratea's slavesoprano castrato travesti
Farnace, son of Mitridatesoprano castrato

References
  1. Casaglia, Gherardo (2005)."Pompeo, 25 January 1683". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
  2. Boyd, Malcolm (1997) [1992]. Stanley Sadie (ed.). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol.3. London: Macmillan Reference Limited. p. 1055. ISBN 1-56159-228-5.
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