Artaserse (Hasse)

{{Short description|Opera by Johann Adolph Hasse (1730)}}

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{{Infobox opera

| name = Artaserse

| image = Artaserse Libretto Cover 1730.jpg

| image_upright = 1.0

| caption = Title page of the original libretto for Hasse's first setting of the work

| genre_header = Opera

| composer = Johann Adolph Hasse

| librettist = Pietro Metastasio (adapted by G. Boldini)

| premiere_date = {{Start date|1730|02|11|df=y}}

| premiere_location = Teatro di San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice

}}

Artaserse is an opera (dramma per musica) in three acts composed by Johann Adolph Hasse to an Italian libretto adapted from that by Metastasio by Giovanni Boldini first shown in Venice on 11 February 1730.

History

Artaserse premiered at the Teatro di San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice on 11 February 1730, just 6 days after the libretto's first setting by Leonardo Vinci premiered in Rome.

Hasse wrote three settings of this libretto. The original one dates from 1730, just before he became Kapellmeister in Dresden. A second setting was made for the Court Theatre in Dresden in 1740. Finally, he composed a third one in 1760, when he was nearing the end of his career as Kapellmeister in Dresden.

His style, as well as musical taste, underwent considerable change during those 30 odd years, so much so that not a lot of the 1760 version (Teatro di San Carlo, Naples) sounds like the music of the 1730 and the 1740 versions. For instance, at the end of the first act of the 1760 version, Mandane's accompanied recitative and aria in which she calls upon the ghost of her father, King Xerxes, has been removed. Although this differs from the previous versions, this change actually makes the drama closer to the original by Metastasio.{{Cite web |last=Hansell |first=Sven |date=1 March 2023 |title=Artaserse(ii) ('Artaxerxes') |url=https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O900215 |website=Grove Music Online|doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O900215 }}

To those three versions solely by Hasse, one must also add a myriad of pasticcios which use Hasse's setting as a basis, including for instance the notable Autumn 1734 London production put together by Nicola Porpora, starring Farinelli in arias written by Riccardo Broschi, but also, earlier that same year, a production for the Venice Carnival including additional music by Galuppi, starring both Farinelli and Caffarelli!

Hasse's Artaserse, in full or at least in part, was produced in:{{Cite web |title=Artaserse |url=https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu/sphinx-results.php?performance=Artaserse |access-date=4 March 2023 |website=London Stage Database}}{{Cite web |title=Artaxerxes |url=https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu/sphinx-results.php?performance=Artaxerxes |access-date=4 March 2023 |website=London Stage Database}}

Synopsis

Artaserse is based on the life of king Artaxerxes I of Persia, a ruler of the fifth century B.C., son of Xerxes I.

Seeing King Serse I's power in serious decline and ambitioning to mount the throne, Artabano, the commander of the royal guards and a powerful official in the Persian court, has murdered the sovereign and is now hoping to sacrifice the rest of the royal family to his design. And so, he accuses Dario, Serses I's eldest son and older brother of Artaserse, of the regicide and persuades the latter to avenge the crime. After Dario's demise, the only thing left wanting is now the death of Artaserse, which Artabano has plotted, but his plans are delayed by a succession of various incidents and in the meantime the treason is revealed.

Roles

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scope="col" style "width:10%" | Character

! scope="col" style "width:30%"| Description

scope="row" | Artaserse

| Prince and subsequently King of Persia; friend of Arbace and in love with Semira

scope="row" | Mandane

| Sister of Artaserse; in love with Arbace

scope="row" | Artabano

| Prefect of the Royal Guard; father of Arbace and Semira

scope="row" | Arbace

| Brother of Semira; friend of Artaserse; in love with Mandane

scope="row" | Semira

| Sister of Arbace; in love with Artaserse

scope="row" | Megabise

| General of the Persian army, Artabano's confidant; also in love with Semira

Aria distribution

Color key:

  • {{Color box|#D193F0|border=darkgray}} Artaserse
  • {{Color box|#DFFF91|border=darkgray}} Mandane
  • {{Color box|#FF8A6F|border=darkgray}} Artabano
  • {{Color box|#9DFF9F|border=darkgray}} Arbace
  • {{Color box|#FFDC8A|border=darkgray}} Semira
  • {{Color box|#FFD6DE|border=darkgray}} Megabise
  • {{Color box|#B4C9B8|border=darkgray}} Duetto / coro
  • {{Color box|#E3F0E3|border=darkgray}} No aria in the scene
  • {{Color box|white|border=darkgray}} Scene does not exist

= In Hasse's settings =

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! scope="col" style="width:3%"|Act

! scope="col" style="width:3%"|Scene

! scope="col" style="width:31%"|Premiere
Venice, 1730[http://corago.unibo.it/opera/APC0004267 "Artaserse, dramma per musica in 3 atti"], Corago, University of Bologna

! scope="col" style="width:31%"|2nd version
Dresden, 1740{{Cite book |last1=Metastasio |first1=Pietro |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jYLU8OJuss4C&pg=PA2-IA1 |title=Artaserse. Dramma per musica rappresentato alla regia elettoral corte di Dresda nell'anno 1740 |last2=Boldini |first2=Giovanni |last3=Lalli |first3=Domenico |last4=Hasse |first4=Johann Adolf |publisher=Stösselin |year=1740 |edition=revised version |location=Dresden}}

! scope="col" style="width:31%"|3rd version
Naple, 1760{{Cite book |last1=Metastasio |first1=Pietro |url=http://www.bibliotecamusica.it/cmbm/viewschedatwbca.asp?path=/cmbm/images/ripro/libretti/02/Lo02481/ |title=Artaserse. Drama per musica da rappresentarsi nel Real Teatro di S. Carlo il dì 20 gennajo 1760. Solennizzandosi il gran giorno natalizio della s.r.m. di Carlo III monarca delle Spagne ed alla s.r. maestà di Ferdinando IV suo degnissimo figlio e nostro clementissimo sovrano dedicato. |last2=Boldini |first2=Giovanni |last3=Lalli |first3=Domenico |last4=Hasse |first4=Johann Adolf |publisher=Girolamo Flauto |year=1760 |location=Naples}}

rowspan="15"|I

|1

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#DFFF91;" |Conservati fedele

2

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Frà cento affanni

3

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

4

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

5

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#D193F0;" |Per pieta, bell' idol mio

6

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#FFD6DE;" |Sogna il Guerrier le schiere

7

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#FFDC8A;" |Bramar di perdere

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

8

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

9

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

10

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

| style="background-color:#D193F0;" |Deh respirar, lasciatemi

11

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

| style="background-color:#D193F0;" |Deh respirar, lasciatemi

| style="background-color:#FF8A6F;" |Non ti son Padre

12

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#FF8A6F;"|Non ti son Padre

| style="background-color:#FFDC8A;" |Torna innocente, e poi

13

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#FFDC8A;" |Torna innocente, e poi

| style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Se al labbro mio non credi

14

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Se al labbro mio non credi

| style="background-color:#DFFF91;" |Se vendetta io chiedo

15

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#DFFF91;" |Che pena al mio core

rowspan="15"|II

|1

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#D193F0;" |Rendimi il caro amico

2

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Lascia cadermi in volto

| style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Mi scacci sdegnato!

3

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

4

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#FF8A6F;" |Amalo, e se al tuo sguardo

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

5

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#FFD6DE;" |Non temer, ch'io mai ti dica

6

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#DFFF91;" |Se d'un amor tirano

7

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#FFDC8A;" |Se del fiume altera l'onda

8

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

9

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

10

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

11

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Per questo dolce amplesso

| style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Per questo paterno amplesso

12

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#DFFF91;" |Và trà le selve ircane

13

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

| style="background-color:#D193F0;" |Non conosco in tal momento

14

| style="background-color:#D193F0;" |Non conosco in tal momento

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

| style="background-color:#FF8A6F;" |Cosi stupisce e cade

15

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#FF8A6F;" |Pallido il sole

rowspan="15"|III

| rowspan="2"|1

| style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Perche tarda è mai la morte

| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#D193F0;" |Pensa, che l'amor mio

| rowspan="2" style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |L'onda dal mar divisa

style="background-color:#D193F0;" |Pensa, che l'amor mio
2

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Parto: qual pastorello

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

3

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#FFD6DE;" |Spiega i lini, abbandona la sponda

| style="background-color:#FF8A6F;" |Figlio, se piu non vivi

4

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#FF8A6F;" |Figlio, se piu non vivi

| style="background-color:#DFFF91;" |Mi credi spietata

5

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#DFFF91;" |Mi credi spietata

| style="background-color:#FFDC8A;" |Non è ver, che sia contento

6

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#FFDC8A;" |Non è ver, che sia contento

| style="background-color:#B4C9B8;"|Tu vuoi ch'io viva o cara (Mandane & Arbace)

7

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#B4C9B8;"|Tu vuoi ch'io viva o cara (Mandane & Arbace)

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

8

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

9

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

10

| colspan="3" style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

11

| colspan="2" style="background-color:#B4C9B8;"| Giusto Rè, la Persia adora (Chorus)

= In other productions =

The arias in bold italic are arias that are not part of Hasse's original opera.

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! scope="col" style="width:5.5%"|Act

! scope="col" style="width:5.5%"|Scene

! scope="col" | London
29 Oct. 1734{{Cite book |last1=Metastasio |first1=Pietro |url=https://teca.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=BNCF00004382830 |title=Artaserse. Drama per musica da rappresentarsi nel Regio Teatro dell'Hay-Market |last2=Boldini |first2=Giovanni |last3=Lalli |first3=Domenico |last4=Hasse |first4=Johann Adolf |last5=Broschi |first5=Riccardo |publisher=Charles Bennet |year=1734 |edition=London |location=London}}

rowspan="11"|I

| rowspan="2"|1

| style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Un' altra volta o Febo

style="background-color:#DFFF91;" |Conservati fedele
2

| style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |In sen mi tace

3

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

4

| style="background-color:#D193F0;" |Per pieta, bell' idol mio

rowspan="2"|5

| style="background-color:#FFD6DE;" |Sogna il Guerrier le schiere

style="background-color:#FFDC8A;" |Bramar di perdere
rowspan="4"|6

| style="background-color:#FF8A6F;" |Non ti son Padre

style="background-color:#FFDC8A;" |Torna innocente, e poi
style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Se al labbro mio non credi (Broschi)
style="background-color:#DFFF91;" |Che pena al mio core
rowspan="9"|II

|1

| style="background-color:#D193F0;" |Rendimi il caro amico

2

| style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Lascia cadermi in volto

rowspan="2"|3

| style="background-color:#FF8A6F;" |Amalo, e se al tuo sguardo

style="background-color:#FFD6DE;" |Non temer, ch'io mai ti dica
rowspan="2"|4

| style="background-color:#DFFF91;" |Se d'un amor tirano

style="background-color:#FFDC8A;" |Se del fiume altera l'onda
rowspan="3"|5

| style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Per questo dolce amplesso

style="background-color:#FF8A6F;" |Ah ingrato crudel
style="background-color:#FF8A6F;" |Pallido il sole
rowspan="8"|III

| rowspan="2"|1

| style="background-color:#D193F0;" |Pensa, che l'amor mio

style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Son qual nave che agitata
rowspan="2"|2

| style="background-color:#FFD6DE;" |Spiega i lini, abbandona la sponda

style="background-color:#FF8A6F;" |Figlio, se piu non vivi
3

| style="background-color:#DFFF91;" |Mi credi spietata

4

|Tu vuoi ch'io viva o cara (Mandane & Arbace)

rowspan="2"|5

| style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Or la nube procellosa

Giusto Rè, la Persia adora (Chorus)

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! scope="col" style="width:5.5%"|Act

! scope="col" style="width:5.5%"|Scene

! scope="col" | Venice
1734{{Cite book |last1=Metastasio |first1=Pietro |url=http://www.urfm.braidense.it/rd/00811.pdf |title=Artaserse. Dramma per musica da rappresentarsi nel famosissimo Teatro Grimani di San Gio. Grisostomo nel carnovale dell'anno 1734. Dedicato a [...] D. Eleonora contessa Perlungo nata contessa della Torre-Tassis |last2=Boldini |first2=Giovanni |last3=Lalli |first3=Domenico |last4=Hasse |first4=Johann Adolf |last5=Galuppi |first5=Baldassare |publisher=Marino Rossetti |year=1734 |location=Venice}}

rowspan="15"|I

|1

| style="background-color:#DFFF91;" |Conservati fedele

2

| style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Se penso al tuo periglio

3

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

4

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

5

| style="background-color:#D193F0;" |Per pietà, bell' idol mio

6

| style="background-color:#FFD6DE;" |Sogna il Guerrier le schiere

7

| style="background-color:#FFDC8A;" |Bramar di perdere

8

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

9

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

10

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

11

| style="background-color:#D193F0;"|Deh respirar lasciatemi

12

| style="background-color:#FF8A6F;" |Non ti son Padre

13

| style="background-color:#FFDC8A;" |Torna innocente, e poi

14

| style="background-color:#DFFF91;" |Dimmi che un empio sei

15

| style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Chi non sente al mio dolore

rowspan="15"|II

|1

| style="background-color:#D193F0;" |Rendimi il caro amico

2

| style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Lascia cadermi in volto

3

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

4

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;" |

5

| style="background-color:#FFD6DE;" |Non temer, ch'io mai ti dica

6

| style="background-color:#DFFF91;" |Se d'un amor tirano

7

| style="background-color:#FFDC8A;" |Se del fiume altera l'onda

8

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

9

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

10

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

11

| style="background-color:#FF8A6F;" |La sorte mia tiranna

12

| style="background-color:#DFFF91;" |Và trà le selve ircane

13

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

14

| style="background-color:#D193F0;"|Se tu mi voi felice

15

| style="background-color:#FF8A6F;" |Cosi stupisce, e cade

rowspan="12"|III

|1

| style="background-color:#9DFF9F;" |Perche tarda è mai la morte

2

| style="background-color:#D193F0;" |Lasciar morir l'autore

3

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;" |

4

| style="background-color:#FF8A6F;" |Pallido il sole

5

| style="background-color:#DFFF91;" |Mi credi spietata

6

| style="background-color:#FFDC8A;" |Non è ver, che sia contento

7

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;" |

8

| style="background-color:#9DFF9F;"|Quell'ardor che il sen m'accende

9

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

10

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

11

| style="background-color:#E3F0E3;"|

12

| Giusto Rè, la Persia adora (Chorus)

Performers and voice types

Color key:

  • {{Color box|#E3F0E3|border=darkgray}} Unknown
  • {{Color box|#FAFF56|border=darkgray}} Soprano
  • {{Color box|#FFCD38|border=darkgray}} Contralto
  • {{Color box|#B0E0E9|border=darkgray}} Tenor
  • {{Color box|#839FFF|border=darkgray}} Bass
  • {{Color box|#ADFF6F|border=darkgray}} Soprano castrato
  • {{Color box|#7BF23F|border=darkgray}} Contralto castrato

=In Hasse's settings=

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colspan=2 scope="col" style "width:8%"| Production

! scope="col" style="width:15%"| Artaserse

! scope="col" style="width:15%"| Mandane

! scope="col" style="width:15%"| Artabano

! scope="col" style "width:15%"| Arbace

! scope="col" style "width:15%"| Semira

! scope="col" style "width:15%"| Megabise

colspan=2 scope="row" | Premiere: Venice, 1730[http://corago.unibo.it/opera/APC0004267 "Artaserse, dramma per musica in 3 atti"], Corago, University of Bologna

| rowspan="2" style="background-color: #B0E0E9;" |Filippo Giorgi{{Cite web |title=Hasse, Johann Adolf |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-90000380289 |access-date=2023-06-28 |website=Grove Music Online |year=2001 |language=en |doi=10.1093/omo/9781561592630.013.90000380289 |last1=Hansell |first1=Sven |isbn=9781561592630 }}

| style="background-color: #FAFF56;" | Francesca Cuzzoni

| style="background-color: #7BF23F;" |Nicolò Grimaldi, aka Nicolini

| style="background-color: #ADFF6F;" | Carlo Broschi, aka Farinelli

| style="background-color: #FFCD38;" | Maria Maddalena Pieri, aka La Polpetta

| style="background-color: #ADFF6F;" |Antonio Castori, aka Castorini

colspan="2" scope="row" | 2nd version: Dresden, 1740{{Cite book |last1=Metastasio |first1=Pietro |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jYLU8OJuss4C&pg=PA2-IA1 |title=Artaserse. Dramma per musica rappresentato alla regia elettoral corte di Dresda nell'anno 1740 |last2=Boldini |first2=Giovanni |last3=Lalli |first3=Domenico |last4=Hasse |first4=Johann Adolf |publisher=Stösselin |year=1740 |edition=revised version |location=Dresden}}

| style="background-color: #FAFF56;" | Faustina Bordoni

| style="background-color: #7BF23F; |Domenico Annibali

| style="background-color: #ADFF6F;" | Ventura Rocchetti, aka Venturini

| style="background-color: #E3F0E3;" | Sofia Denner

| style="background-color: #ADFF6F;" |Giovanni Bindi, aka Porporino{{Cite web |title=Dresden |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000044245 |access-date=2023-06-28 |website=Grove Music Online | year=2001 |language=en |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.44245 | last1=Steude | first1=Wolfram | last2=Fechner | first2=Manfred | last3=Ottenberg | first3=Hans-Günter | last4=John | first4=Hans | last5=Härtwig | first5=Dieter | last6=Herrmann | first6=Matthias }}

colspan=2 scope="row" | 3rd version: Naples, 1760{{Cite book |last1=Metastasio |first1=Pietro |url=http://www.bibliotecamusica.it/cmbm/viewschedatwbca.asp?path=/cmbm/images/ripro/libretti/02/Lo02481/ |title=Artaserse. Drama per musica da rappresentarsi nel Real Teatro di S. Carlo il dì 20 gennajo 1760. Solennizzandosi il gran giorno natalizio della s.r.m. di Carlo III monarca delle Spagne ed alla s.r. maestà di Ferdinando IV suo degnissimo figlio e nostro clementissimo sovrano dedicato. |last2=Boldini |first2=Giovanni |last3=Lalli |first3=Domenico |last4=Hasse |first4=Johann Adolf |publisher=Girolamo Flauto |year=1760 |location=Naples}}

| style="background-color: #7BF23F;|Pietro Santi

| style="background-color: #FAFF56;" | Clementina Spagnoli, aka La Spagnoletta

| style="background-color: #B0E0E9;"|Carlo Carlani

| style="background-color: #ADFF6F;" | Salvatore Consorti

| style="background-color: #E3F0E3;" | Dorotea Sabatini

| style="background-color: #FAFF56;" | Caterina Flavis

=In other productions=

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scope="col" style "width:8%"| Production

! scope="col" style "width:8%"| Additional music

! scope="col" style="width:15%"| Artaserse

! scope="col" style="width:15%"|Mandane

! scope="col" style="width:15%"| Artabano

! scope="col" style "width:15%"| Arbace

! scope="col" style "width:15%"| Semira

! scope="col" style "width:15%"| Megabise

scope="row" |Lucca
1730{{Cite book |last1=Metastasio |first1=Pietro |url=http://dl.cini.it/collections/mirador/234 |title=Artaserse. Drama per musica da rappresentarsi nel Teatro di Lucca nell'autunno dell'anno 1730. |last2=Boldini |first2=Giovanni |last3=Lalli |first3=Domenico |last4=Hasse |first4=Johann Adolf |publisher=Domenico Ciuffetti |year=1730 |location=Lucca}}

|

| style="background-color: #7BF23F;" |Andrea Pacini, aka Lucchesino

| style="background-color: #FAFF56;" |Anna Maria Peruzzi, aka La Parrucchiera

|style="background-color: #B0E0E9;" |Pellegrino Tomy, aka Vincentino

| style="background-color: #ADFF6F;" | Carlo Broschi, aka Farinelli

|style="background-color: #FFCD38;" | Lucia Lancetti{{Cite web |title=Lancetti [Lanzetti], Lucia |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-5000902756 |access-date=2023-06-28 |website=Grove Music Online | year=2002 |language=en |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.o902756 | last1=Timms | first1=Colin }}

| style="background-color: #7BF23F;" |Giovanni Ossi

scope="row" |Milan
1730{{Cite book |last1=Metastasio |first1=Pietro |url=http://corago.unibo.it/esemplare/ZAP1600920/DRT0005121 |title=Artaserse. Drama per musica da rappresentarsi nel Regio Ducal Teatro di Milano nel carnovale dell'anno 1731. Dedicata a sua eccellenza [...] Maria Barbara contessa di Daun [...] moglie di [...] Wirico Filippo Lorenzo conte di Daun [...] governatore e capitano generale dello Stato di Milano etc |last2=Boldini |first2=Giovanni |last3=Lalli |first3=Domenico |last4=Hasse |first4=Johann Adolf |publisher=Giuseppe Richino Malatesta |year=1730 |location=Milan}}

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| style="background-color: #ADFF6F;" | Gaetano Majorano, aka Caffarelli

|style="background-color: #FFCD38;" |Vittoria Tesi, aka La Moretta

|style="background-color: #B0E0E9;" |Filippo Giorgi

| style="background-color: #7BF23F;" |Giovanni Carestini

| style="background-color: #FAFF56;" |Anna Maria Peruzzi, aka La Parrucchiera

|style="background-color: #FFCD38;" |Catterina Giorgi

scope="row" |Verona
1733{{Cite book |last1=Metastasio |first1=PIetro |url=http://www.urfm.braidense.it/rd/03487.pdf |title=Artaserse. Dramma per musica da rappresentarsi in Verona nel nuovo Teatro dell'Accademia Filarmon. nel carnovale dell'anno 1733. Dedicato a [...] Daria Soranzo Gradeniga podestaressa di Verona |last2=Boldini |first2=Giovanni |last3=Lalli |first3=Domenico |last4=Hasse |first4=Johann Adolf |publisher=Jacopo Vallarsi |year=1733 |location=Verona}}

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| style="background-color: #FAFF56;" |Gioseffa Pircherin, aka La Tedesca

|style="background-color: #FAFF56;" |Antonia Negri, aka La Mestrina

| style="background-color: #7BF23F;" |Francesco Braganti

| style="background-color: #ADFF6F;" |Pietro Morigi, aka Il Marchigiano

| style="background-color: #E3F0E3;" |Eleonora Sarmantina, aka La Polacchine

| style="background-color: #E3F0E3;" |Andrea Costa

scope="row" | Venice
1734{{Cite book |last1=Metastasio |first1=Pietro |url=http://www.urfm.braidense.it/rd/00811.pdf |title=Artaserse. Dramma per musica da rappresentarsi nel famosissimo Teatro Grimani di San Gio. Grisostomo nel carnovale dell'anno 1734. Dedicato a [...] D. Eleonora contessa Perlungo nata contessa della Torre-Tassis |last2=Boldini |first2=Giovanni |last3=Lalli |first3=Domenico |last4=Hasse |first4=Johann Adolf |last5=Galuppi |first5=Baldassare |publisher=Marino Rossetti |year=1734 |location=Venice}}

|| Galuppi

| style="background-color: #ADFF6F;" | Gaetano Majorano, aka Caffarelli

| style="background-color: #FAFF56;" | Lucia Facchinelli, aka La Beccheretta

| style="background-color: #B0E0E9;" | Francesco Tolve

| rowspan="2" style="background-color: #ADFF6F;" | Carlo Broschi, aka Farinelli

|style="background-color: #FFCD38;" | Teresa Pieri, aka La Polpetta

| style="background-color: #7BF23F;" | Antonio Baldi

scope="row" |London
1734{{Cite book |last1=Metastasio |first1=Pietro |url=https://teca.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/ImageViewer/servlet/ImageViewer?idr=BNCF00004382830 |title=Artaserse. Drama per musica da rappresentarsi nel Regio Teatro dell'Hay-Market |last2=Boldini |first2=Giovanni |last3=Lalli |first3=Domenico |last4=Hasse |first4=Johann Adolf |last5=Broschi |first5=Riccardo |publisher=Charles Bennet |year=1734 |edition=London |location=London}}

|Broschi
Porpora

| style="background-color: #839FFF;" | Antonio Montagnana

| style="background-color: #FAFF56;" | Francesca Cuzzoni

|style="background-color: #7BF23F;" | Francesco Bernardi, aka Senesino

| style="background-color: #FFCD38;" | Francesca Bertolli, aka La Chicchina

| style="background-color: #FAFF56;" | Maria Segatti

scope="row" |Ljubljana
1740{{Cite book |last1=Metastasio |first1=Pietro |url=http://www.dlib.si/details/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-7CR7E4UX |title=Artaserse. Trama [!] per musica da rappresentarsi nella sala del Palazzo Provinciale in Lubiana. Dedicato all'eccelsa provincia del ducato di Cragno nel carnevale 1740. La poesia è del sig. abbate Pietro Metastasio poeta di sua maestà ces. e catt. fra gli Arcadi Artino Corasio. La musica è del sig. Giovanni Adolfo Hasse, detto il Sassone maestro di cappella di sua maestà il Re di Polonia ed elettor di Sassonia e maestro del Pio Ospital dell'Incurabili in Venezia. |last2=Boldini |first2=Giovanni |last3=Lalli |first3=Domenico |last4=Hasse |first4=Johann Adolf |publisher=Adamo Frid. Reichhardt |year=1740 |location=Ljubljana}}

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| style="background-color: #E3F0E3;"|Domenico Battaglini

| style="background-color: #E3F0E3;"|Carlina Valvasori

| style="background-color: #E3F0E3;"|Pasqual Negri

| style="background-color: #E3F0E3;"|Barbara Naziri

| style="background-color: #FAFF56;" |Antonia Negri, aka La Mestrina

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scope="row" |London
1754{{Cite book |last1=Metastasio |first1=Pietro |url=https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100100766399.0x000001#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=3&xywh=0%2C-127%2C3969%2C2310 |title=Artaserse. Drama per musica pel Teatro di S.M.B. |last2=Boldini |first2=Giovanni |last3=Lalli |first3=Domenico |last4=Hasse |first4=Johann Adolf |publisher=G. Woodfall |year=1754 |location=London}}

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| style="background-color: #FAFF56;" | Ms Passerini{{Cite web |title=Actors - Passerini |url=https://londonstagedatabase.uoregon.edu/sphinx-results.php?actor[]=Passerini |access-date=4 March 2023 |website=London Stage Database}}

|style="background-color: #FAFF56;" | Caterina Visconti, aka La Viscontina

| style="background-color: #B0E0E9;" | Ottavio Albuzzi

| style="background-color: #ADFF6F;" | Pietro Serafini

| style="background-color: #FAFF56;" | Giulia Frasi

| style="background-color: #E3F0E3;"| Mr Ranieri

scope="row" |Ferrara
1765{{Cite book |last1=Metastasio |first1=Pietro |url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/musschatz.18091.0/?sp=4|title=Artaserse. Dramma per musica da rappresentarsi in Ferrara nel Teatro Bonacossi da S. Stefano il carnovale dell'anno 1765 dedicato agl'illustrissimi ed eccelsi signori Giudice e maestrato de Savj di Ferrara |last2=Boldini |first2=Giovanni |last3=Lalli |first3=Domenico |last4=Hasse |first4=Johann Adolf |publisher=Bernardino Pomatelli|year=1765 |location=Ferrara}}

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| style="background-color: #7BF23F;" |Giuseppe Guspelti{{Cite web |title=Giuseppe Guspelti |url=https://data.bnf.fr/14794062/giuseppe_guspelti/ |access-date=2023-03-02 |website=data.bnf.fr |language=fr}}

| style="background-color: #FAFF56;" |Lucrezia Agujari, aka La Bastardella

|style="background-color: #E3F0E3;" |Pietro Tibaldi

| style="background-color: #7BF23F;" | Antonio Francia, aka Perellino

| style="background-color: #E3F0E3;" |Luigia Fabris

| style="background-color: #E3F0E3;" |Adolfo Hasse, aka Il Sassone

scope="row" |London
1766{{Cite book |last1=Metastasio |first1=Pietro |url=https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100025950467.0x000001#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=2&xywh=255%2C193%2C2697%2C1570 |title=Artaserse. Drama da rappresentarsi sopra il teatro di s.m.b. N.B. Musica del signor Hasse detto il Sassone |last2=Boldini |first2=Giovanni |last3=Lalli |first3=Domenico |last4=Hasse |first4=Johann Adolf |publisher=G. Woodfall |year=1766 |location=London}}

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| style="background-color: #ADFF6F;" | Gasparo Savoj

| style="background-color: #FAFF56;" | Clementina Spagnoli, aka La Spagnoletta

| style="background-color: #B0E0E9; " | Ercole Ciprandi{{Cite web |title=Ciprandi, Ercole |url=https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-5000009962 |access-date=2023-06-28 |website=Grove Music Online | year=2002 |language=en |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.o009962 | last1=Rosselli | first1=John }}

| style="background-color: #ADFF6F;" | Filippo Elisi

| style="background-color: #FAFF56;" | Caterina Visconti, aka La Viscontina

| style="background-color: #E3F0E3;" | Ms Ghiretti

Recordings

  • [https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8082848--hasse-j-a-artaserse-1730-venice-version Hasse, J A: Artaserse (1730 Venice version).] Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, conductor: Corrado Rovaris. Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (tenor) as Artaserse, Maria Grazia Schiavo (soprano) as Mandane, Sonia Prina (contralto) as Artabano, Franco Fagioli (countertenor) as Arbace, Rosa Bove (mezzo-soprano) as Semira, Antonio Giovannini (countertenor) as Megabise. Recording date: July 2012, Festival della Valle d'Itria, Martina Franca. release: 2016, Label: Dynamic Cat. CDS7715/1–3 (CD), 37715 (DVD).
  • [https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8765772--hasse-artaserse Hasse: Artaserse (1740 Dresden version).] Orchestra of the Antipodes, conductor: Erin Helyard. David Hansen (countertenor) as Arbace, Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano) as Mandane, Carlo Vistoli (countertenor) as Artabano, Andrew Goodwin (tenor) as Artaserse, Russell Harcourt (countertenor) as Megabise, Emily Edmonds (mezzo-soprano) as Semira. release: 2020, Label: Pinchgut Opera, Cat. PG011.

References

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