Ottone in villa
Antonio Vivaldi
La Fenice Opera House
La Fenice Opera House
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Ottone in villa
Ottone in villa (RV 729) is an opera in three acts by Antonio Vivaldi to an Italian libretto by Domenico Lalli (the pseudonym of Sebastiano Biancardi). It was Vivaldi’s first opera and premiered on 17 May 1713 at the Teatro delle Grazie in Vicenza. Lalli’s pastoral drama is set in ancient Rome and was a condensed adaptation of Francesco Maria Piccioli’s satirical libretto for Carlo Pallavicino’s opera Messalina (1679). However, Lalli changed several of the characters in Piccioli’s libretto. Messalina became an invented character, Cleonilla. Emperor Claudius became another Roman emperor, Otho (Ottone), who had already appeared as a protagonist in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (1642) and in Handel’s Agrippina (1709).
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CAST
La Fenice Orchestra
Conductor Diego Fasolis
continuo
Diego Fasolis, Andrea Marchiol clavicembali Alessandro Zanardi violoncello
Francesco Tomasi tiorba
Director Giovanni Di Cicco
Sets Massimo Checchetto
Costumes Carlos Tieppo
Lighting Fabio Barettin
Cleonilla Giulia Semenzato
Ottone Sonia Prina
Caio Silio Lucia Cirillo
Decio Valentino Buzza
Tullia Michela Antenucci
The permormance lasts about 2 hours and 40 minutes, including one interval
