''L'Armida immaginaria'' is a

dramma giocoso ''Dramma giocoso'' (Italian, literally: drama with jokes; plural: ''drammi giocosi'') is a genre of opera common in the mid-18th century. The term is a contraction of ''dramma giocoso per musica'' and describes the opera's libretto (text). The ge ...

in three acts by composer Domenico Cimarosa with an Italian libretto by

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. The opera was first performed in

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during the summer of 1777 at the Teatro di Fiorentini.

Roles

Other operas named after the sorceress Armida

* Armida (Dvořák) *

Armida (Haydn) ''Armida'' ( Hob. XXVIII/12) is a 1784 opera (''dramma eroico'') in three acts by Austrian composer Joseph Haydn, set to an Italian-language libretto taken from Antonio Tozzi's 1775 opera ''Rinaldo'', as amended by , and ultimately based on the st ...

Armida (Rossini) ''Armida'' is an opera in three acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto (''dramma per musica'') by Giovanni Schmidt, based on scenes from ''Jerusalem Delivered, Gerusalemme liberata'' by Torquato Tasso. Performance hist ...

Armida (Sacchini) is an opera seria in three acts with music by Antonio Sacchini set to a libretto by (a.k.a. Giacomo Duranti), based on the epic poem ''Jerusalem Delivered, Gerusalemme liberata'' by Torquato Tasso. The opera was first performed during the 1772 Ca ...

Armida (Salieri) ''Armida'' () is an operatic dramma per musica by Antonio Salieri in three acts, set to a libretto by Marco Coltellini. The plot is based on the epic poem ''Gerusalemme liberata'' by Torquato Tasso. Lully, Handel and Traetta, to name but a few, ...

Armida (Weir) ''Armida'' is an opera by British composer Judith Weir. It premiered on 25 December 2005 as a television broadcast on the United Kingdom, UK station, Channel 4 which had commissioned the work. The English libretto, also written by Weir, is loosel ...

Armida abbandonata ''Armida Abbandonata'' (''Armida Abandoned'') is an opera in three acts by the Italian composer Niccolò Jommelli. The libretto, by Francesco Saverio De Rogatis, is based on the epic poem ''Jerusalem Delivered'' by Torquato Tasso. The opera was fi ...

* Armida al campo d'Egitto *

Armide (Gluck) ''Armide'' is an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck, set to a libretto by Philippe Quinault. Gluck's fifth production for the Parisian stage and the composer's own favourite among his works, it was first performed on 23 September 1777 by the Acad ...

Armide (Lully) ''Armide'' is an opera in five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully. The libretto by Philippe Quinault is based on Torquato Tasso's poem ''La Gerusalemme liberata'' (''Jerusalem Delivered''). The work is in the form of a tragédie en musique, a genre ...

References

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