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Il trionfo dell'onore

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Il trionfo dell'onore (The Triumph of Honour) is an operatic 'commedia' in three acts by the Italian composer Alessandro Scarlatti, with a libretto by {{ill|Francesco Antonio Tullio|it}}. It was first performed at the Teatro dei Fiorentini, Naples, on 26 November 1718. It is Scarlatti's only known comic opera.

Roles

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!Role

!Voice typeVaccarini, Marina, Trionfo dell'onore, Il, in Gelli, Piero & Poletti, Filippo eds. (2007). Dizionario dell'Opera 2008, Milan: Baldini Castoldi Dalai, pp. 1311-1312. {{ISBN|978-88-6073-184-5}} (reproduced online at [http://www.operamanager.com/cgi-bin/process.cgi?azione=ricerca&tipo=OP&id=1079 Opera Manager (in Italian)])

!Premiere cast{{Almanacco|dmy=26-11-1718|match=Il trionfo dell´onore}}

Riccardo Albenori

|soprano (en travesti)

|Caterina Testi

Leonora Dorini

|contralto

|Petronilla Micheli

Erminio

|soprano castrato

|Biagio Stabile

Doralice Rosetti

|soprano

|Costanza Posterla

Flaminio Castravacca

|tenor

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Cornelia Buffacci

|tenor (en travesti)

|Simone De Falco

Rosina Caruccia

|contralto

|Marianna Monti

Capitan Rodimarte Bombarda

|bass

|Giacomo D'Ambrosio

Synopsis

;Act 1

:Ricardo Albenori, a dissolute young man, and his friend, the soldier Rodimarte Bombarda, arrive in Pisa, having escaped from Lucca where they had run into trouble with the law. In Lucca, Riccardo had also seduced Leonora Dorini before rejecting her in favour of Doralice Rossetti. Leonora has followed him and takes refuge with Cornelia Buffacci, Doralice's aunt. Doralice, too, is still pursuing Riccardo, who manages to convince her he loves her.

;Act 2

:Erminio, Leonora's brother who is in love with Doralice, arrives in Pisa. Leonora tells him how Riccardo, Erminio's friend, seduced her. He vows to avenge her. Leonora and Doralice quarrel over Riccardo.

;Act 3

:Riccardo plans to elope with Doralice but Erminio finds him and challenges him to a duel. Riccardo is wounded, repents his dissolute life and accepts Leonora's hand in marriage.

References

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Further reading

  • The Viking Opera Guide, ed. Amanda Holden (Viking, 1993)
  • [http://pagesperso-orange.fr/jean-claude.brenac/SCARLATTI_TRIONFO.htm Work details], Magazine de l'opéra baroque (in French)]

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