''La clemenza di Tito'' is a 1734 opera by

Antonio Caldara Antonio Caldara (ca 1670 – 28 December 1736) was an Italian Baroque composer. Life Caldara was born in Venice (exact date unknown), the son of a violinist. He became a chorister at St Mark's in Venice, where he learned several instruments, ...

, the original setting of the libretto by

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 ...

. John A. Rice, ''Clemenza di Tito'', 1991, , p. 10: "Metastasio's ''La clemenza di Tito'' was first performed in 1734, with music by the Habsburg court composer Antonio Caldara. During the period of thirty-eight years following the performance of Caldara's setting many of Europe's leading ..."

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Operas 1734 operas Operas by Antonio Caldara Italian-language operas Cultural depictions of Titus {{Italian-opera-stub