Didone abbandonata is an opera in three acts by Niccolò Jommelli of the libretto Didone abbandonata by Pietro Metastasio.[1] It was composed just after Jommelli left Venice in 1746 and revised in 1763. It was first performed on January 28, 1747, at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
Recordings
edit- Didone abbandonata [3rd version] (1995). Martina Borst (Enea), Arno Raunig (Osmida), William Kendall (Iarba), Mechthild Bach (Selene), Dorothea Röschmann (Didone), Daniel Taylor (Araspe). Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Frieder Bernius. Orfeo.
References
edit- ^ Laura Williams Macy, The Grove Book of Opera Singers, 2008, ISBN 9780195337655, p. 16: "Aragall, Giacomo appointed primo uomo in Stuttgart for the period 1762–9 (with one Italian interlude), appearing in Niccolò Jommelli's Didone abbandonata (1763), Demofoonte (1764) and Fetonte (Phaethon, 1768), among other"
