GUARANA, "Apollo conducting an orchestra" -- Ospedaletto, Venezia.

Speranza

Apollo personally conducts the orchestra. Next to him, dressed in yellow, is Pasquale ANFOSSI, the director of the Ospedaletto.

ANFOSSI conducts the CHORUS, rather.

He holds a rolled-up musical score.

His identification as PASQUALE ANFOSSI is specifically confirmed by the fact that on the sheet music held by the solo singer one can read the initial musical phrases to

PRINCIPE DEMETRIO's

aria from

ANTIGONA

--- which had been set to music by ANFOSSI and first performed in VENEZIA in 1773.

The second phrase in the score reads,

"We shall fight together."

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