Opera in the Repertoire · Baroque
Chi soffre, speri
Music by Marco Marazzoli · libretto by Clement IX · premiered 1637 · at Palazzo Barberini
L'Egisto, ovvero Chi soffre speri ('Egisto, or Who suffers may hope') is a 1637 commedia musicale, a type of early Italian comic opera, in a prologue and three acts with music by Virgilio Mazzocchi (and, in its 1639 revision, Marco Marazzoli) and a libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi (the future Pope Clement IX), based on Giovanni Boccaccio's Il decamerone (Fifth day, ninth tale).
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About the Composer
Marco Marazzoli is the composer of record for this opera.
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