''L'incoronazione di Dario'' (''The Coronation of

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'') is an opera in three acts composed by

Giacomo Antonio Perti Giacomo Antonio Perti (6 June 1661 – 10 April 1756) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. He was mainly active at Bologna, where he was '' Maestro di Cappella'' for sixty years. He was the teacher of Giuseppe Torelli and Giovanni ...

to an Italian

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by Adriano Morselli (revised by Giorgio Maria Raparini). It was first performed on 13 January 1686, at the Teatro Malvezzi in Bologna. Morselli originally wrote the libretto for Domenico Freschi's opera ''Dario'' which premiered at the

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in Venice in 1685. Other later uses of the libretto include Giuseppe Aldrovandini's 1705 ''L'incoronazione di Dario'' (with the libretto revised by Andrea del Pò) and

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's 1717 ''

L'incoronazione di Dario ''L'incoronazione di Dario'' () ( RV 719) is a dramma per musica by Antonio Vivaldi with an Italian libretto by Adriano Morselli. The opera Opera is a form of History of theatre#European theatre, Western theatre in which music is a fundame ...

'' (with the libretto revised by an unknown author).

Roles

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, ''claimant to the throne of

King Cyrus Cyrus II of Persia ( ; 530 BC), commonly known as Cyrus the Great, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Achaemenid dynasty (i. The clan and dynasty) Hailing from Persis, he brought the Achaemenid dynasty to power by defeating the Media ...

'' (

tenor A tenor is a type of male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. Composers typically write music for this voice in the range from the second B below m ...

) *Statira, ''daughter of King Cyrus'' (

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) *Argene, ''daughter of King Cyrus'' (contralto) *Flora (contralto) *Alinda (

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hertz, Hz to A5 in Choir, choral ...

) *Arpago, ''claimant to the throne of King Cyrus'' (soprano) *Oronte, ''claimant to the throne of King Cyrus'' (soprano

castrato A castrato (Italian; : castrati) is a male singer who underwent castration before puberty in order to retain a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto. The voice can also occur in one who, due to an endocrino ...

) *Ombra di Ciro, ''the ghost of King Cyrus'' (tenor) *Niceno, ''tutor to Statira and Argene'' (

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) *

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(bass)

Sources

* *Fantuzzi, Giovanni (1789)
''Notizie degli scrittori bolognesi'', Volume 7
Stamperia di S. Tommaso d'Aquino, pp. 171–172 *Olschki, Leo S. (1979)
''Il teatro musicale di Antonio Vivaldi''
Biblioteca degli Historiae Musicae Cultores, p. 101 Operas Italian-language operas 1686 operas Operas set in ancient Persia Cultural depictions of Darius the Great {{Italian-opera-stub