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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Giovanni Battista Draghi (; 4 January 1710 – 16 or 17 March 1736), often referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (), was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist. His best-known works include his Stabat Mater and the opera ''L ...

's L'Olimpiade, see

L'Olimpiade (Pergolesi) ''L'Olimpiade'' is an opera in the form of a dramma per musica in three acts by the Italian composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Pergolesi took the text, with a few modifications, from the L'Olimpiade, libretto of the same name by Pietro Metastas ...

'' ''L'Olimpiade'' is an opera in three acts by

Baldassare Galuppi Baldassare Galuppi (18 October 17063 January 1785) was an Italian composer, born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Republic. He belonged to a generation of composers, including Johann Adolph Hasse, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, and C. ...

in the

opera seria ''Opera seria'' (; plural: ''opere serie''; usually called ''dramma per musica'' or ''melodramma serio'') is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to abo ...

style, based on the original

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 ...

of the same name by Pietro Metastasio. It premiered on 26 December 1747 at the Teatro Regio Ducale in Milan.

Recordings

*Mark Tucker ( Clistene, tenor), Ruth Rosique (

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, soprano), Roberta Invernizzi (Argene, soprano), Romina Basso (Megacle, soprano astrato,

Franziska Gottwald Franziska Gottwald (born in Marburg) is a German mezzo-soprano singer in opera and concert. Career Franziska Gottwald received her first voice training at the age of 16 with Eugen Rabine and studied voice at the Academies of Music in Saarbrü ...

(Licidas, soprano rouser role, (Alcandro, contralto), Filippo Adami (Aminta, tenor); premiere recording on video DVD (2006) Andrea Marcon (conductor), Venice Baroque Orchestra, Dominique Poulange (stage director) Teatro Malibran, Venice – Dynamic Cat. 33545"''L'Olimpiade''"
Opéra Baroque (in French)

References

1747 operas Operas by Baldassare Galuppi Libretti by Metastasio Italian-language operas Operas set in ancient Greece Ancient Olympic Games Operas {{opera-stub