Atide
Music by Josef Mysliveček · premiered 1774
Atide is an opera in three acts by Josef Mysliveček set to a libretto by Tomaso Stanzani that is based on Greek legends about Atys, an ancient king of Lydia. Stanzani's libretto is based on an earlier libretto by Philippe Quinault that was originally set by Jean-Baptiste Lully as Atys in 1676.
The opera Atide (and all the rest of Mysliveček's operas) belong to the serious type in Italian language referred to as opera seria.
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About the Composer
Josef Mysliveček (9 March 1737 – 4 February 1781) was a Czech composer. He contributed to the formation of late eighteenth-century classicism in music. Mysliveček provided his younger friend Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart with significant compositional models in the genres of symphony, Italian serious opera, and violin concerto; both Wolfgang and his father Leopold Mozart considered him an intimate friend from the time of their first meetings in Bologna in 1770 until he betrayed their trust over the promise of an operatic commission for Wolfgang to be arranged with the management of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. His closeness to the Mozart family resulted in frequent references to him in the…
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Other Operas by Josef Mysliveček
- Antigona
- Armida
- Il gran Tamerlano
- Farnace (1727)
- Ezio (1728)
- Artaserse (1730)
- Demetrio (1731)
- Adriano in Siria (1732)