Amor d'un'ombra e gelosia d'un'aura
Amor d'un'ombra e gelosia d'un'aura ("The Love of a
Background and performance history
Queen Maria Casimira had taken up residence in Rome in 1699 following the death of her husband Jan III Sobieski and her subsequent exile from Poland. Once in Rome she set up a court and became an active figure the city's musical life. In 1709, Domenico Scarlatti succeeded his father Alessandro as her court composer. His librettist, Carlo Capece, was her private secretary and court poet. Amor d'un'ombra e gelosia d'un'aura premiered at Maria Casimira's private theatre in the Palazzo Zuccari in January 1714 and proved to be the last of the several operas which Scarlatti had composed for her. Five months after the premiere, she departed for France, leaving a string of debts behind her.[2]
In addition to Scarlatti's opera, the 1714 Carnival opera season in Rome saw the premieres of Caldara's
A revised version of the opera with the addition of two arias and two duets composed by
The Haymarket Theatre Narciso proved to be the last time one of Scarlatti's operas was performed in his lifetime. The discovery of a copy of the manuscript score in the library of
References
Notes
- ^ Kirkpatrick p. 53
- ^ Kirkpatrick p. 54
- ^ Franchi and Sartori p. 103
- ^ Kirkpatrick p. 66
- ^ Kirkpatrick p. 416
- ^ Boyd p. 590.
- ^ Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Arts du Spectacle. 34. Narciso (2002; Houdart): marionnettes. Retrieved 23 February 2014 (in French)
Sources
- Boyd, Malcolm (October 1985). "Nova Scarlattiana". The Musical Times, Vol. 126, No. 1712, pp. 589–593. Retrieved 23 February 2014 (subscription required).
- Capece, Carlo Sigismondo (1714). Amor d'un'ombra e Gelosia d'un'aura. Antonio de' Rossi (in Italian)
- Franchi, Saverio and Sartori, Orietta (1997). Drammaturgia romana, Vol. 2. Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura. ISBN 8887114064(in Italian)
- Kirkpatrick, Ralph (1983). Domenico Scarlatti. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691027080