- Source: Xerse (Bononcini)
Xerse (Xerxes) is an opera in three acts by Giovanni Bononcini. It was designated as a dramma per musica. The libretto was written by Silvio Stampiglia after that by Nicolò Minato which had been used for the 1654 opera of the same name by Francesco Cavalli. Stampiglia's version was in turn used as the basis for Handel's Serse.
Stampiglia's version keeps to the story used by Minato but there are major differences in the way the work as a whole is structured.
Performance history
The opera was first performed in Rome at the Teatro di Tor di Nona on 25 January 1694.
Roles
References
Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). "Xerse, 25 January 1694". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
Lindgren, Lowell (1992), "Xerse (ii)" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
External links
Xerse (Bononcini): Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
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- Giovanni Battista Bononcini
- Xerse (Bononcini)
- Giovanni Bononcini
- Xerxes
- Il Xerse
- Ombra mai fu
- Silvio Stampiglia
- 1694 in music
- List of historical opera characters
- List of Innsbruck Festival of Early Music productions
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