''Il Cambise'' is an opera by

Alessandro Scarlatti Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the most important representative of the Neapolitan school of opera. ...

to a

libretto A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the t ...

Domenico Lalli Sebastiano Biancardi (27 March 1679 – 9 October 1741), known by the pseudonym Domenico Lalli, was an Italian poet and librettist. Amongst the many libretti he produced, largely for the opera houses of Venice, were those for Vivaldi's ''Ottone i ...

. It was first performed on 4 February 1719 at the

Teatro San Bartolomeo Theatres for diverse musical and dramatic presentations began to open in Naples, Italy, in the mid-16th century as part of the general Spanish cultural and political expansion into the kingdom of Naples, which had just become a vicerealm of Spain. ...

in Naples. It was the composer's 111th opera and his last for Naples.''

Proceedings of the Musical Association ''Journal of the Royal Musical Association'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering fields ranging from historical and critical musicology to theory and analysis, ethnomusicology, and popular music studies. The journal is published by Routle ...

'', volumes 29–32, p. 83, Musical Association (Great Britain) (1966) "Scarlatti's last opera for Naples was ''Cambise'' (1719), his 111th opera."

Selected recordings

*Sinfonia "doppo che sia alzata la tenda", Arias "Io parto vincitor". "In quelle luci belle" "Mi cinga la fama" Daniela Barcellona (mezzo) Concerto de Cavalieri, Marcello Di Lisa DHM *"Tutto appoggio il mio disegno" Max Cencic Il Pomo D'Oro,

Maxim Emelyanychev Maxim Yuryevich Emelyanychev (Максим Юрьевич Емельянычев; born 28 August 1988, Dzerzhinsk) is a Russian conductor, pianist, harpsichordist and cornetist. From a musical family, Emelyanychev studied music at the Nizhny Novgor ...

Decca 2015 *"Quando vedrai", "Mi cinga la fama" Carlo Vistoli (countertenor) I Talenti Vulcanici, Stefano Demicheli. Arcana 2017

References

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* {{Authority control Operas 1719 operas Operas by Alessandro Scarlatti Italian-language operas