Camilla (Bononcini)
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Camilla was an opera first performed at Drury Lane in London on 30 April 1706. The libretto was based on Il Trionfo di Camilla, regina de' Volsci by Silvio Stampiglia, translated into English verse by Owen Swiny, Peter Motteux, or others.[1][2]: 96 Authorship of the music for the original is attributed variously to Giovanni Bononcini and to his brother Marc Antonio.[3][4] Music for the London version was adapted by Nicola Haym.[5] The opera was the first to be sung in a mixture of English and Italian, and it was one of the first London operas in which the castrato Nicolò Grimaldi (known as Nicolini) performed.[4]
There were three separate productions of Camilla in London which together had 111 or 112 performances from 1706 to 1728, making it the most popular and successful work of its period, after The Beggar's Opera.[5][2]: 103