Tuesday, April 23, 2013

----- *************** ------ Ancient Roman History in Italian Melodrama: WHO'S WHO -- Dall'A alla Z -- d'Adriano, Agrippina a ...--- MASCAGNI, BOITO -- "The Rape of Lucrezia" ---- "Poppea" the first opera on an Ancient Roman historical topic

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This is a list of historical figures dealing with Roman History who have been characters in opera or operetta.

Historical accuracy in Italian melodrama has often been subject to the imperatives of dramatic presentation.

Consequently, in many cases,historical characters appear alongside fictional characters

Also, historical characters who never met, or whose lives did not even overlap, appear on stage together

Historical events depicted are transported to earlier or later times or to different places

Historical people are seen participating in entirely fictional events, or vice-vers

The actions of historical people are attributed to other persons

REFERENCES

Jellinek, George,
History Through the Opera Glass:
From the rise of Caesar to the fall of Napoleon,
Pro/Am Music Resources, 1994.

Morgan, Christopher, The true stories behind operas,
Oxford University Press, 1996.

Heller, Wendy,
"Tacitus Incognito: Opera as History
in L'incoronazione di Poppea",
Journal of the American Musicological Society, 52,  pp. 39–96.

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EZIO. Flavius Aetius, Roman general
Giuseppe Gazzaniga, Ezio
George Frideric Handel: Ezio
Gaetano Latilla: Ezio
Giuseppe Verdi, "Attila"


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Agrippa. Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Roman statesman and general
Samuel Barber: Antony and Cleopatra

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Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, Roman consul (32 BC)
Samuel Barber: Antony and Cleopatra (as Enobarbus)

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ALESSANDRO .Emperor Alexander Severus of Rome
George Frideric Handel: Alessandro Severo

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AUGUSTO. Caesar Augustus, Roman Emperor
Samuel Barber: Antony and Cleopatra (as Octavius Caesar)

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Aurelian, Emperor of Rome
Gioachino Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira

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BRUTO. Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger,
Roman politician, co-assassin of Julius Caesar
Giselher Klebe: Die Ermordung Cäsars -- L'assassinio di Giulio Cesare.Tratto da Shakespeare.

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Servilius Casca, co-assassin of Julius Caesar
Gaius Cassius Longinus, Roman politician, co-assassin of Julius Caesar
Giselher Klebe: Die Ermordung Cäsars


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CATONE.
Vivaldi.

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Tillius Cimber, co-assassin of Julius Caesar
Giselher Klebe: Die Ermordung Cäsars (as Metellus Cimber)

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Helvius Cinna, Roman poet
Lorenzo Ferrero: Le piccole storie – ai margini delle guerre
Giselher Klebe: Die Ermordung Cäsars

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Lucius Cornelius Cinna, Roman consul
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Lucio Silla

Emperor Claudio of Rome
George Frideric Handel: Agrippina

Clelia, early Roman figure.
Filippo Amadei, Giovanni Battista Bononcini and George Frideric Handel: Muzio Scevola

ORAZIO Cocles, Roman military officer
Filippo Amadei, Giovanni Battista Bononcini and George Frideric Handel: Muzio Scevola

Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus,
Roman consul, husband of Lucretia
Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia

Emperor Constantine I "The Great" of Rome
Gaetano Donizetti: Fausta

Gaius Marcius Coriolanus, Roman leader
Francesco Cavalli: Coriolano

Marcus Licinius Crasso, Roman general and politician
Francesco Cavalli: Pompeo Magno

Flavius Julius Crispo,
Caesar of the Roman Empire
Gaetano Donizetti: Fausta

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Emperor Diocletian of Rome
Henry Purcell: Dioclesian

Publius Cornelius Dolabella, Roman general
Samuel Barber: Antony and Cleopatra


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Emperor Elagabalus of Rome (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus)
Francesco Cavalli: Eliogabalo
Pietro Simone Agostini: Eliogabalo

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Fausta Flavia Maxima, Empress of Rome, second wife of Constantine the Great
Gaetano Donizetti: Fausta

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Galla Placidia, Roman regent, daughter of Emperor Theodosius I
Jaume Pahissa i Jo: Gal·la Placídia (1913)

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ADRIANO

Adriano, Roman emperor
José de Nebra: Más gloria es triunfar de sí, o, Adriano en Siria
Girolamo Abos: Adriano in Siria
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    Julia Caesaris,
    daughter of Julius Caesar, 4th wife of Pompey the Great
    Francesco Cavalli: Pompeo Magno

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      GIULIO CESARE Consul and Dictator of Rome
      Francesco Cavalli: Pompeo Magno
      Carl Heinrich Graun: Cesare e Cleopatra
      George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare (in Egitto) (LONDRA)
      Giselher Klebe: Die Ermordung Cäsars
      Antonio Sartorio: Giulio Cesare in Egitto (VENEZIA)

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         Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman triumvir
        Samuel Barber: Antony and Cleopatra
        Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, heir to Emperor Caligula of Rome
        Reinhard Keiser: Octavia

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        Lucan, Roman poet
        Claudio Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea

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        Lucretia, Roman noblewoman raped by Sextus Tarquinius
        Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia
        Ottorino Respighi: Lucrezia
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        Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus,
        Roman general, natural father of Scipio Aemilianus
        Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Il sogno di Scipione, K. 126

        Gaius Maecenas,
        political adviser to Octavian (Caesar Augustus)
        Samuel Barber: Antony and Cleopatra


        MARC'ANTONIO
         Roman politician and general
        Samuel Barber: Antony and Cleopatra
        Domenico Cimarosa: La Cleopatra
        Louis Gruenberg: Antony and Cleopatra
        Henry Kimball Hadley: Cleopatra's Night
        Giselher Klebe: Die Ermordung Cäsars
        Jules Massenet: Cléopâtre

        Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus Herculius,
        aka Maximian, Roman ruler
        Gaetano Donizetti: Fausta

        Maximinian, co-Emperor of Rome
        Henry Purcell: Dioclesian

        Valeria Messalina, Roman Empress
        Isidore de Lara: Messaline

        Cecilia Metella Dalmatica, fourth wife of Lucius Cornelius Sulla
        George Frideric Handel: Silla

        Cornelia Metella,
        Pompey's second wife
        George Frideric Handel: Giulio Cesare (in Egitto) (as Cornelia)

        Gaius Mucius Scaevola, Roman figure
        Francesco Cavalli: Mutio Scevola
        George Frideric Handel: Muzio Scevola

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        Emperor Nero of Rome
        Arrigo Boito: Nerone
        George Frideric Handel: Agrippina
        Reinhard Keiser: Octavia
        Pietro Mascagni: Nerone (as Claudio Cesare Nerone)
        Claudio Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
        Anton Rubinstein: Néron
        Juan Manén: Acté and Neró i Acté

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        Empress Claudia Octavia of Rome, consort of Nero
        Reinhard Keiser: Octavia
        Claudio Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea
        Octavia the Younger, fourth wife of Mark Antony
        Samuel Barber: Antony and Cleopatra
        Jules Massenet: Cléopâtre

        Sallustia Orbiana, wife of Emperor Alexander Severus of Rome
        George Frideric Handel: Alessandro Severo


        Emperor Marcus Salvius Otho of Rome
        Antonio Vivaldi: Ottone in villa

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        Gaius Petronius Arbiter, Roman courtier, writer



        Gaius Calpurnius Piso, Roman senator







        Pompey the Great, Roman military and political leader
        Empress Poppaea Augusta Sabina, consort of Roman Emperors Nero and Otho
        Lars Porsena,
        King of Etruria
        Filippo Amadei, Giovanni Battista Bononcini and George Frideric Handel: Muzio Scevola









        Publius Valerius Publicola, Roman consul

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        Scipio Aemilianus, aka Scipio Africanus the Younger, Roman general, nephew and adopted son of Scipio Africanus the Elder
        Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Il sogno di Scipione, K. 126
        Scipio Africanus, aka Scipio Africanus the Elder, Roman general
        Francesco Cavalli: Scipione affricano
        Gioacchino Albertini: Scipione Africano
        George Frideric Handel: Scipione
        Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Il sogno di Scipione, K. 126
        Antonio Sacchini: Scipione in Cartagena


        Seneca the Younger, Roman philosopher, dramatist

        Sextus Pompey, Roman general, son of Pompey the Great


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        Lucius Cornelius Sulla, Roman general and dictator
        George Frideric Handel: Silla
        Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Lucio Silla


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        Lucius Tarquinius, one of 3 kings of Rome
        Filippo Amadei, Giovanni Battista Bononcini and George Frideric Handel: Muzio Scevola

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        Sextus Tarquinius, son of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, King of Rome
        Benjamin Britten: The Rape of Lucretia


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        TITO
        Emperor Titus of Rome
        Antonio Caldara: La clemenza di Tito
        Christoph Willibald Gluck: La clemenza di Tito
        Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La clemenza di Tito
        Josef Mysliveček: La clemenza di Tito
        and settings of La clemenza di Tito by about 40 other composers
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        Titus Manlius Torquatus, Roman dictator
        Antonio Vivaldi: Tito Manlio


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        Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor
        George Frideric Handel: Ezio


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        Publius Quinctilius Varus, Roman general
        George Frideric Handel: Arminio






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        Gaius Iulius Vindex, Roman general
        Anton Rubinstein: Nerone
































          












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