Ezio (libretto)

Ezio is an opera libretto by Pietro Metastasio, first officially set to music by Pietro Auletta and premièred in the Teatro delle Dame, Rome, on December 26, 1728; an unauthorized setting by Nicola Porpora had already been premièred a month earlier (November 20) in Venice.^[1]

Other notable settings include:

• Ezio (Handel), King's Theatre, London 1732
• Ezio (Mysliveček, 1775), Naples
• Ezio (Mysliveček, 1777), Munich – completely new music
• Ezio (Gluck), Prague 1750, revised Vienna 1763
• Ezio (1730), Johann Adolph Hasse, Naples, revised Dresden 1755
• Ezio (1750), Davide Perez, Teatro Regio Ducale, Milan
• Ezio (1757), Tommaso Traetta, Teatro delle Dame, Rome
• Ezio (Latilla), Naples 1758

References

1. Irving Godt, Marianna Martines: a woman composer in the Vienna of Mozart and Haydn John A. Rice – 2010, p. 61 "Typical of the collection is 'Pensa a serbarmi, o cara', Marianna's setting of an aria text from Metastasio's Ezio, a libretto first heard in Venice in 1728 with music by Porpora and in Rome the following year with music by Pietro Auletta"