Atenaide (Vivaldi)

Atenaide
Opera by Antonio Vivaldi
Libretto title page
Librettist	Apostolo Zeno
Language	Italian
Premiere	29 December 1728 (1728-12-29)

Atenaide (RV 702) is an opera by Antonio Vivaldi to a revised edition of a 1709 libretto by Apostolo Zeno for Caldara.^[1] It was first performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence on 29 December 1728 for the 1729 Carnival season.^[2]

Roles

Roles, voice types, premiere cast

Role	Voice type	Premiere cast:[3] 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
Leontino [de]	tenor	Annibal Pio Fabbri
Marziano, general of Teodosio, in love with Pulcheria	contralto	Anna Maria Faini
Probo, praetorian prefect, also in love with Pulcheria	tenor	Gaetano Baroni

Recordings

• 2007: Sandrine Piau, Vivica Genaux, Guillemette Laurens, Romina Basso, Nathalie Stutzmann, Paul Agnew, Stefano Ferrari, Modo Antiquo, Federico Maria Sardelli. 3CDs Naïve Records

References

1. 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."
2. "Work details", Corago, University of Bologna
3. "Libretto (1729)", p. 5

External links

• L'Atenaide, RV 702 (Vivaldi): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project