''Il trionfo di Clelia'' is an Italian opera

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 ...

Metastasio Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of ''opera seria'' libretti. Early life Me ...

originally written for

Johann Adolf Hasse Johann Adolph Hasse (baptised 25 March 1699 – 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a co ...

and premiered in Vienna in 1762. Among the many subsequent settings are the setting by Gluck that premiered in Bologna in 1763 and the setting by Josef Mysliveček that premiered in Turin in 1767.

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* {{Authority control Libretti by Metastasio 1762 operas Cultural depictions of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus Cultural depictions of Cloelia