Didone abbandonata

Didone abbandonata Act I, Scene V

Didone abbandonata is an opera libretto in three acts by Pietro Metastasio. It was his first original work and was set to music by Domenico Sarro in 1724. The opera was accompanied by the intermezzo L'impresario delle Isole Canarie, and also by Metastasio.

During the century that followed it was set more than 50 times by other composers such as Nicola Porpora (1725), Leonardo Vinci (1726), Baldassare Galuppi (1740), Johann Adolph Hasse (1742), Niccolò Jommelli (1747), Tommaso Traetta (1757), Giuseppe Sarti (1762), Niccolò Piccinni (1770), Saverio Mercadante (1823).

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere cast
Didone (Dido), Queen of Carthage	Soprano	Marianna Benti Bulgarelli
Enea (Aeneas, in love with and loved by Didone	Soprano Castrato	Nicola Grimaldi
Iarba, King of the Moors, who appears as "Arbace"	Contralto	Antonia Merighi
Selene, sister of Dido and secretly in love with Aeneas	Soprano	Benedetta Sorosina
Araspe, Confidant of Iarba and lover of Selene	Tenor	Annibale Pio Fabri
Osmida, confidant of Dido	Soprano	Caterina Leri

Libretti by Pietro Metastasio

Didone abbandonata (1724) Catone in Utica (1728) Ezio (1728) La passione di Gesù Cristo (1730) Artaserse (1730) Demofonte (1731) L'Olimpiade (1733) Betulia liberata (1734) La clemenza di Tito (1734) Il trionfo di Clelia (1762)

"Dido and Aeneas" from Virgil's Aeneid

Characters	Dido Aeneas

Operas	Didone (1641, Cavalli) Dido and Aeneas (1688, Purcell) discography "Dido's Lament" Didon (1693, Desmarets) Didone abbandonata (1724, Metastasio) Didone abbandonata (1724, Sarro) Didone abbandonata (1724, Albinoni) Didone abbandonata (1762, Sarti) Didon (1783, Piccinni) Dido, Queen of Carthage (1792, Storace) Les Troyens (1863, Berlioz)

Plays	Dido, Queen of Carthage (c. 1593)

Poetry	Roman d'Enéas (1160)

Music	Simple Man

Art	Dido building Carthage

Related	Low Ham Roman Villa Amelia

Virgil's Aeneid (19 BC)

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Deities	Alecto Crinisus Cupid Hecate Hymen Juno Jupiter Mars Mercury Saturn Tiberinus Venus

Humans	Acestes Achaemenides Achates Actor Aeneads Aeneas Aeolus Ajax the Lesser Alcathous Aletes Amata Anchises Androgeos Andromache Anna Perenna Antiphates Ascanius Automedon Aventinus Butes Caieta Camilla Capys Cassandra Catillus Clonius Clytius Creusa Cydon Cydonians Dardanus Dares Phrygius Deiphobus Diomedes Elymus Entellus Erulus Euryalus Evander of Pallene Halaesus Halys Helenus Hippocoon Iarbas Ilioneus Juturna Laocoön Latinus Lausus Lavinia Macar Messapus Metabus Mezentius Mimas Misenus Mnestheus Neoptolemus Nisus and Euryalus Ornytus Palinurus Pallas Pandarus Panthous Paris Picus Polites Priam Ripheus Rutuli Salius Sinon Theano Thymoetes Turnus Ucalegon Ufens

Phoenicians	Acerbas Belus II Dido Mattan I Pygmalion of Tyre

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Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 185457055 GND: 7855753-7

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