Orontea

Also known as L’Orontea

Orontea is an opera in a prologue and three acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini (revised by Giovanni Filippo Apolloni).

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Opera.name: Orontea
Opera.image: Antonio Cesti - Orontea - title page of the libretto - Innsbruck 1656.png
Opera.caption: Title page of the 1656 libretto
Opera.genre_header: Opera
Opera.composer: Antonio Cesti
Opera.librettist: Giacinto Andrea Cicognini
Opera.premiere_location: Hoftheater, Innsbruck

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Composer: Antonio Cesti
Librettist: Giacinto Andrea Cicognini

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language of work or name: Italian
title: Orontea
date of first performance: 1656-02-19
Commons category: Orontea
number of parts of this work: 3
form of creative work: opera

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Contents

Performance history
Roles
Synopsis
Prologue
Act 1
Act 2
Act 3
Recordings
Sources
External links

Orontea is an opera in a prologue and three acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini (revised by Giovanni Filippo Apolloni).

==Performance history== thumb|Libretto printed for the 1683 production at the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice

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