Farnace is an opera by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, set to a libretto by Antonio Maria Lucchini initially set by Leonardo Vinci during 1724. Vivaldi's...

Mitridate, re di Ponto: "Farnace" is sung by a mezzo-soprano or contralto, and "Sifare" and "Arbate" are sung by sopranos. However, "Farnace" is commonly...

planned to put on an opera entirely of his own creation, Arsilda, regina di Ponto (RV 700), but the state censor blocked the performance. The main character...

Metastasio's libretto Notes Voice types and premiere cast according to Strohm (II, pp. 530-531). Because of an oversight the character of Alcandro is not included...

Pharnaces II of Pontus Francesco Cavalli: Pompeo Magno (as Farnace) Francesco Corselli: Farnace Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto Josef Mysliveček:...

Andronicus proposes that she go to him as Irene’s messenger. [Tamerlane does not know what she looks like.] She agrees to fight for her rights. Scene...

Emperor Leopold II — for an Italian opera buffa, and produced La finta semplice. During a stay in Naples he composed Mitridate, re di Ponto (1770), his first...

four o’clock in the morning to practise the 5th of Vivaldi; he continued to do this for five months successively, besides what he did at other times, so...

Lucio Silla, The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, Mitridate, re di Ponto, L'oca del Cairo, Il re pastore, Der Schauspieldirektor, Die Schuldigkeit...

thought to have been lost until it was rediscovered in 2002. After World War II, the Sing-Akademie's library was captured by the Red Army and taken to the...