Ciro

For the Italian wine region, see Cirò wine.

For the Italian "comune", see Cirò, Calabria.

Francesco Cavalli

Operas Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo (1639) Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne (1640) La Didone (1641) La virtù dei strali d'Amore (1642) Egisto (1643) L'Ormindo (1644) Doriclea (1645) Il Giasone (1649) Orimonte (1650) Oristeo (1651) La Calisto (1652) Eritrea (1652) Veremonda (1652) Rosinda (1653) Orione (1653) Ciro (1654) Xerse (1655) Statira principessa di Persia (1655) Erismena (1655) Artemisia (1657) Hipermestra (1658) Elena (1659) Ercole amante (1662) Scipione affricano (1664) Mutio Scevola (1665) Pompeo Magno (1666) Eliogabalo (1667)

Ciro (Cyrus) is an opera in three acts and a prologue by the Italian composer Francesco Cavalli in collaboration with Andrea Mattioli. It was first performed at the Teatro San Giovanni e San Paolo, Venice on January 30, 1654. The libretto is by Giulio Cesare Sorrentino in a revised version by Aurelio Aureli. Sorrentino's libretto had been set the previous year by Francesco Provenzale for the royal theatre in Naples.

References

Source

Brenac, Jean-Claude, Le magazine de l'opéra baroque online at perso.orange.fr Retrieved 9 September 2011

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