Giulio Sabino

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Operas by Giuseppe Sarti

Didone abbandonata (1762)
Le gelosie villane (1776)
Medonte, re di Epiro (1777)
Giulio Sabino (1781)
Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode (1782)

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Giulio Sabino ("Julius Sabinus") is a dramma per musica (opera seria) in three acts by Giuseppe Sarti. The libretto was by Pietro Giovannini.

The opera, staged in six or seven European countries at the end of the 18th century, was the subjext of a parody in Antonio Salieri's 1786 work Prima la musica e poi le parole.

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[edit] Performance history

It was first performed at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice in January 1781. The opera was revived in Ravenna in 1999 (see recording section below).

[edit] Roles

Cast Voice type Premiere, January, 1781
(Conductor:Unknown)
Annio tenor
Arminio soprano
Epponina soprano
Sabino soprano
Tito tenor
Voadice soprano

[edit] Synopsis

The opera which is about the triumph of conjugal love. It is set in 1st century Gaul in the time of the Emperor Vespasian.

[edit] Recording

There is a recording made in Ravenna in 1999 by the Accademia Bizantina under Ottavio Dantone with Alessandra Palomba (Arminio), Sonia Prina (Giulio Sabino), Donatella Lombardi (Voadice), Elena Monti (Epponina), Giuseppe Filianoti (Tito), Kremena Dilcheva (Annio) (Bongiovanni CD 1173251).

[edit] Source

Giulio Sabino by John A Rice, in 'The New Grove Dictionary of Opera', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7

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