Ignazio Pollice (also Pulici) (

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1684–1705) was an Italian composer of the

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era, from

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...

. He is most famous for his ''L'innocenza pentita: o vero la Santa Rosalia'', which opened the just-built Teatro Santa Cecilia in Palermo in 1693.Paolo Carapezza, "Palermo." In Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/20745 (accessed November 11, 2011) Few biographical details of Pollice's life are available, but some of his performance history is known. He was a representative of the

Neapolitan School In music history, the Neapolitan School is a group, associated with opera, of 17th and 18th-century composers who studied or worked in Naples, Italy,Don Michael Randel (2003). ''The Harvard Dictionary of Music'', p. 549. . the best known of whom is ...

, and wrote during a period dominated 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. ...

, who was also from Palermo. In Palermo, opera came late, and principally from

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

; many opera houses and other musical institutions were founded in the city during the closing decades of the 17th century. Pollice wrote both sacred and secular music, including the oratorio ''La vita rediviva nell'inventione di Santa Croce'' (1705), the dialogues ''Assalone ribelle'' and ''Scalae Jacob'' (1684 and 1700, respectively), and the opera ''Isabella ovvero il Principe ermafrodito'' (1685). The sacred drama ''L'innocenza pentita o vero la Santa Rosalia'' opened on 28 October 1693 at the new Teatro Santa Cecilia; the libretto was by Vincenzo Giattino; and the new theatre was built by the Unione dei Musici.

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