Ercole amante
Music by women composers · libretto by Francesco Buti · premiered 2023 · at Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle
Ercole amante (Hercules in Love) is an 18th-century Italian-language opera in five acts. It was composed in France in 1707 by Antonia Bembo with a libretto by Francesco Buti. Bembo reused Buti's libretto from Francesco Cavalli's 1662 opera of the same name. The libretto is based on stories of Hercules from Sophocles's Women of Trachis, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pseudo-Apollodorus's Bibliotheca, and Seneca's Hercules Oetaeus. The opera was first performed in Stuttgart in 2023 in a concert version. Ars Minerva plans to give the first staged performance in San Francisco in November 2025. The Paris Opera is scheduled to perform Ercole in May 2026.
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About the Composer
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Other Operas by women composers
- Faust et Hélène (1913)