Gli Orazi e i Curiazi
Music by Domenico Cimarosa · libretto by Antonio Simeone Sografi · premiered 1796 · at Teatro La Fenice
Gli Orazi e i Curiazi (The Horatii and the Curiatii) is an opera in three acts (azione tragica) composed by Domenico Cimarosa to a libretto by Antonio Simeone Sografi, based on Pierre Corneille's tragedy Horace.
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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
- Il matrimonio segreto (1766)
- Giannina e Bernardone (1781)
- Giunio Bruto (1781)
- Il maestro di cappella (1793)
- Artemisia (1801)