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- Performance history
- Roles
- References
{{Cavalli operas}}Scipione affricano (Scipio Africanus) is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli. It was designated as a dramma per musica. The Italian libretto was by Nicolò Minato.Performance historyIt was first performed in Venice at the Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo on 9 February 1664. It was also given in Rome in 1671 with the castrato Giovanni Francesco Grossi as a celebrated Siface. Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani produced a greatly revised version of the opera for the Carnival of Venice in 1678. Roles | Role | Voice type | Premiere Cast, February 9, 1664
(Conductor: - ) | | Asdrubale | tenor | | Ericlea | soprano | | Luceio | soprano | | Polinio | soprano | | Siface | alto | Giovanni Francesco Grossi | | Massanissa | bass | | Sofonisba | soprano | |
References- Sources
- Amadeus Almanac, accessed 4 November 2008
- Clinksdale, Martha Novak, "Scipione affricano" , The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) {{ISBN|0-333-73432-7}}
La clemencia de Escipión#Ópera 4 : Italian-language operas|Operas by Francesco Cavalli|1664 operas|Operas |