Giunio Bruto
Music by Domenico Cimarosa
Giunio Bruto (Italian, Junius Brutus) is a two-act opera seria in two acts by Domenico Cimarosa to a libretto by Eschilo Acanzio, composed in 1781.
The opera was premiered in 1781 at the opening of Teatro Filarmonico in Verona. During the next two years further performances were given at Genoa, Siena and Pisa. In 1788, Joseph Haydn produced the opera at Esterháza; but despite a lavish staging and alterations to the score by Haydn himself, the production was not successful. The plot revolves around the love between Lucius Junius Brutus's son Titus and Tullia (named Tarquinia in real life), the daughter of Tarquinius, the last king of Rome, whom Brutus had supplanted.
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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)
- Il maestro di cappella (1793)
- Artemisia (1801)