Atenaide (Vivaldi)

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| name = Atenaide

| composer = Antonio Vivaldi

| image = Antonio Vivaldi - L'Atenaide - title page of the libretto - Florence 1729.png

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| caption = Libretto title page

| librettist = Apostolo Zeno

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| language = Italian

| premiere_date = {{Start date|1728|12|29|df=y}}

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Atenaide (RV 702) is an opera by Antonio Vivaldi to a revised edition of a 1709 libretto by Apostolo Zeno for Caldara.Julie Anne Sadie, Companion to Baroque Music 1998, p. 259: "... by Charles VI, for whom he had provided two librettos during his residence in Barcelona as Charles III the Pretender; Atenaide (1709) and Scipione nelle Spagne (c1710) were collaboratively set by A. S. Fiore, Antonio Caldara and Gasparini." It was first performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence on 29 December 1728 for the 1729 Carnival season.[http://corago.unibo.it/opera/Z000030178 "Work details"], Corago, University of Bologna

Roles

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!Premiere cast:[http://www.bibliotecamusica.it/cmbm/viewschedatwbca.asp?path=/cmbm/images/ripro/libretti/05/Lo05556/ "Libretto (1729)"], p. 5
29 December 1728, Florence

Teodosio II, emperor, in love with Atenaide

|soprano castrato

|Gaetano Valletta

Atenaide (also called Eudossa), Leontino's daughter

|soprano

|Giustina Turcotti

Pulcheria, Teodosio's sister

|contralto

|Anna Girò

Varane, son of Isdegarde (King of Persia), also in love with Atenaide

|contralto

|Lisabetta Moro