Ifigenia in Tauride
Music by Leonardo Vinci
Ifigenia in Tauride is an opera in five acts composed by Leonardo Vinci to a libretto by Benedetto Pasqualigo. It premiered on 26 December 1724 at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice, with Faustina Bordoni in the title role. The opera was Vinci's first success in Venice and his only five-act opera.
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About the Composer
Leonardo Vinci (1690 – 27 May 1730) was an Italian Baroque composer known chiefly for his 40 or so operas. Comparatively little of his work in other genres survives. A central proponent of the Neapolitan School of opera, his influence on subsequent opera composers such as Johann Adolph Hasse and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was considerable.
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Other Operas by Leonardo Vinci
- Didone abbandonata (1724)
- Gismondo, Re di Polonia (1727)
- Catone in Utica (1728)
- Artaserse (1730)