Opera seria

style of Italian opera

'''' (Italian for Idomeneus, King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante; usually referred to simply as Idomeneo, K. 366) is an Italian-language opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was adapted by Giambattista Varesco from a French text by Antoine Danchet, based on a 1705 play by Crébillion père, which had been set to music by André Campra as Idoménée'' in 1712. Mozart and Varesco were commissioned in 1780 by Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria for a court carnival. He probably chose the subject, though it may have been Mozart. The work premiered on 29 January 1781 at the Cuvilliés Theat

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

opera by George Frideric Handel

1724 opera by George Frideric Handel

Alcina (HWV 34) is a 1735 opera by George Frideric Handel. Handel used the libretto of ''L'isola di Alcina'', a work set to music in 1728 in Rome by Riccardo Broschi, which he had acquired a year later during his travels in Italy. Partly altered for better conformity, the story was originally taken from Ludovico Ariosto's epic poem Orlando furioso (like those of the Handel operas Orlando and Ariodante). The opera contains several musical sequences with opportunity for dance: these were composed for dancer Marie Sallé.

Opera seria by Mozart

thumb|upright=1.2|Title page of the libretto, London 1738 Serse (; English title: Xerxes; HWV 40) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. It was first performed in London on 15 April 1738. The Italian libretto was adapted by an unknown hand from that by Silvio Stampiglia (1664–1725) for an earlier opera of the same name by Giovanni Bononcini in 1694. Stampiglia's libretto was itself based on one by Nicolò Minato (ca.1627–1698) that was set by Francesco Cavalli in 1654. The opera is set in Persia (modern-day Iran) about 470 BC and is very loosely based upon Xerxes I of Persia

Semiramide () is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto by Gaetano Rossi is based on Voltaire's tragedy Semiramis, which in turn was based on the legend of Semiramis of Assyria. The opera was first performed at La Fenice in Venice on 3 February 1823.

opera by Mozart

Tancredi is a melodramma eroico (opera seria or heroic opera) in two acts by composer Gioachino Rossini and librettist Gaetano Rossi (who was also to write Semiramide ten years later), based on Voltaire's play Tancrède (1760). The opera made its first appearance at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on 6 February 1813, less than a month after the premiere of his previous opera Il signor Bruschino. The overture, borrowed from La pietra del paragone, is a popular example of Rossini's characteristic style and is regularly performed in concert and recorded.

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

3-act opera seria by G. F. Händel with libretto by Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani about Agrippina, the mother of Nero, who plots the downfall of Claudius to install Nero as emperor; premiered in Venice at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo on 26 Dec. 1709

opera by Georg Friedrich Händel

opera by Georg Friedrich Händel

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

opera by George Frideric Handel

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

thumb|upright=1.1|George Frideric HandelFloridante (HWV 14) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli after Francesco Silvani's libretto for Marc'Antonio Ziani dramma per musica La costanza in trionfo of 1696.

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Opera by Georg Friedrich Händel

opera by Georg Friedrich Händel

opera by Georg Friedrich Händel

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

thumb|upright|Title page of the libretto, 1713 thumb|upright|alt=black&white photograph of a 1710 miniature of a young man's portrait|Händel 1710

thumb|upright=1.1|George Frideric Handel Imeneo (alternative title: Hymen, HWV 41) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Silvio Stampiglia's Imeneo. Handel had begun composition in September 1738, but did not complete the score until 1740.

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Thomas Arne

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

opera by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

opera by Domenico Cimarosa

opera by Antonio Zingarelli

opera by Alessandro Scarlatti

opera by Giovanni Pacini

opera by Domenico Cimarosa

opera by Giuseppe Sarti

Cleofide (Cleophis) is an opera seria in three acts by Johann Adolf Hasse. The Italian libretto was adapted from Metastasio's ''Alessandro nell'Indie'' by Michelangelo Boccardi.

opera by Josef Mysliveček

opera by George Frideric Handel

opera by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Tieteberga (RV 737) is a partially lost dramma per musica by Antonio Vivaldi. The Italian libretto was by Antonio Maria Lucchini.

opera by Carl Heinrich Graun

opera by Alessandro Scarlatti

opera by Giovanni Pacini

opera by Antonio Vivaldi (1714)

opera by Johann Adolph Hasse

Opera by Maksym Berezovsky

opera by Josef Mysliveček

Demofonte (also Demofoonte; Il Demofoonte; Demofoonte, ré di Tracia [King of Thrace]; Démophon; Demophontes; or ''Dirce, L'usurpatore innocente'' [Dirce, the Innocent Usurper]) is an opera seria libretto by Metastasio. The libretto was first set by Antonio Caldara in 1733, but remained popular throughout the eighteenth century and was set over seventy times.

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

opera by George Frideric Handel

thumb|Title page of the libretto (1763) Zanaida is a three-act opera seria with music by Johann Christian Bach and libretto based on Metastasio's Siface, re di Numidia by Giovanni Gualberto Bottarelli who relocated the action from North Africa to Persia. It debuted at the His Majesty's Theatre, London, on 7 May 1763.

opera seria by Alessandro Scarlatti

opera by Josef Mysliveček