Farnace (opera material)

Farnace is the title of at least two librettos for several baroque operas about the Bosporan King Pharnakes II.

The first version is by Domenico Lalli . This was set to music by

• Carlo Francesco Pollarolo (1653-1723)
  • 1718 Venice in the Teatro San Cassiano
• Giovanni Battista Bononcini
  • 1723 on November 27th in London, King's Theater

The second version of the libretto was written by Antonio Maria Lucchini . This was first set to music by Leonardo Vinci in 1724 .

It was then set to music by various composers, seven times by Vivaldi alone:

• Antonio Vivaldi : Farnace
  • First performance February 1727 Venice
  • Re-performance in autumn 1727 Venice with a few new arias
  • 1730 Prague
  • 1731 Pavia
  • 1732 Mantua
  • 1737 Treviso
  • 1738 Ferrara (performance canceled)
• Giuseppe Maria Orlandini (1676–1760)
  • Carnival 1728 Milan - udT Berenice
• Giovanni Porta (1675–1755)
  • 1740 Munich
• Giuseppe Antonio Paganelli
  • 1738 Braunschweig
• Francesco Corselli (1705–1778)
  • 1739 Madrid, Buen Retiro
• Tommaso Traetta (1727–1779)
  • 1751 Naples, Teatro San Carlo (Nov. 4)
• Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781)
  • 1767 Naples, Teatro San Carlo (Nov. 4)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Digitized libretto for the performance
2. ↑ http://www.operone.de/verbindungen/bononcini.html - All information in operone comes from the MGG - Music in the past and present . Bärenreiter publishing house
3. ↑ Kurt Sven Mark current: The operas of Leonardo da Vinci . Napoletano. University of Toronto 1993: p. 70 ( limited preview in Google book search); see also http://www.operone.de/verbindungen/vinci.html as well as the booklet to the CD edition Vivaldi: Farnace (Ferrara 1738). Virgin / EMI 50999 0709142 1. Text: Féderic Delamea
4. ↑ The performance in Ferrara in 1738 was canceled before the completion of the manuscript of the score, which has survived, however, because the revision of his opera Siroe , which was also commissioned by Vivaldi, fell through with the audience in Ferrara. For all information on Vivaldi's versions of the operatic material, see Farnace (Vivaldi) or in the supplement to the CD edition of the reconstructed version of Farnace 1738 for Ferrara, which was published by Virgin / EMI in 2011. Virgin / EMI 50999 0709142 1. Text: Féderic Delamea
5. ↑ Giuseppe Maria Orlandini on operone.de ( Memento from June 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ Libretto online
7. ↑ Giuseppe Paganelli on operone.de ( Memento from January 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
8. ↑ Libretto online
9. ↑ http://www.operone.de/verbindungen/traetta.html
10. ↑ Score online at http://www.internetculturale.it (Subcategory: Digital Contents)