Artemisia
Music by Domenico Cimarosa
Artemisia is the last opera of Domenico Cimarosa. The libretto, in three acts, is by Count Giovanni Battista Colloredo. Cimarosa died on 11 January 1801 before writing the music to Act III; with the first performance given at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice on 17 January 1801. It also included interpolations by other hands in the first two acts. In the opera, Artemisia, Queen of Caria, the widow of Mausolus, had to deal with a variety of unwanted suitors. The opera is not to be confused with Cimarosa's earlier opera (1797), Artemisia, Regina di Caria (Artemisa, Queen of Caria), which has a similar storyline, but is set to a different libretto.
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About the Composer
Domenico Cimarosa (Italian: [doˈmeːniko tʃimaˈrɔːza] ; 17 December 1749 – 11 January 1801) was an Italian composer of the Neapolitan School and of the Classical period. He wrote more than eighty operas, the best known of which is Il matrimonio segreto (1792); most of his operas are comedies. He also wrote instrumental works and church music. Cimarosa was principally based in Naples, but spent some of his career in various other parts of Italy, composing for the opera houses of Rome, Venice, Florence and elsewhere. He was engaged by Catherine the Great of Russia as her court composer and conductor between 1787 and 1791. In his later years, returning to Naples, he backed the losing side in…
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Other Operas by Domenico Cimarosa
- Gli Orazi e i Curiazi
- Il matrimonio segreto (1766)
- Giannina e Bernardone (1781)
- Giunio Bruto (1781)
- Il maestro di cappella (1793)