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Armida
Dramma per musica by Antonio Salieri
Antonio Salieri, engraving by Carl Traugott Riedel, 1802
Librettist	Marco Coltellini
Language	Italian
Based on	Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata.
Premiere	2 June 1771 (1771-06-02) Burgtheater, Vienna

Armida (Italian pronunciation: [arˈmiːda]) is an operatic dramma per musica by Antonio Salieri in three acts, set to a libretto by Marco Coltellini. The plot is based on the epic poem Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso. Lully, Handel and Traetta, to name but a few, had already composed operas based on the situations that Tasso originally developed. The plot of all of these, and Salieri's work, is based on the relationship between Armida and the Crusader Rinaldo.

Salieri's opera was first performed at the Vienna Burgtheater on 2 June 1771, and his composition was much influenced by the aesthetics of Christoph Willibald Gluck, who attempted to reform opera seria by tying the drama more closely to the music. Salieri's overture follows the principles set out by Gluck in the preface to Alceste. Other Gluckian influences display themselves in the frequent interplay of soloist and chorus, and the heavy use of chorus overall. Nonetheless, Gluck himself would also go on to produce his own adaptation of the story six years later.

Roles

Cast	Voice type	Premiere, June 2, 1771 (Conductor: - )
Armida	soprano	Catharina Schindler
Ismene	soprano
Rinaldo	soprano castrato	Giuseppe Millico ?
Ubaldo	tenor

Recordings

Armida : Lenneke Ruiten (Armida), Teresa Iervolino (Ismene), Florie Valiquette (Rinaldo), Ashley Riches (Ubaldo) Les Talens Lyriques, Chœur de Chambre de Namur, Christophe Rousset. 22nd Jan 2021 AP244 Aparté

References

John A. Rice: "Armida", Grove Music Online ed L. Macy (accessed 12 May 2007), grovemusic.com, subscription access.

v t e Antonio Salieri
List of operas List of compositions
Operas	Le donne letterate (1770) L'amore innocente (1770) Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace (1770) Armida (1771) La fiera di Venezia (1772) Europa riconosciuta (1778) La scuola de' gelosi (1778) Der Rauchfangkehrer (1781) Il ricco d'un giorno (1784) Les Danaïdes (1784) La grotta di Trofonio (1785) Les Horaces (1786) Prima la musica e poi le parole (1786) Tarare (1787) Axur, re d'Ormus (1788) La cifra (1789) Palmira, regina di Persia (1795) Falstaff (1799)
Instrumental	Picciola serenata (1776)
Sacred	La passione di Gesù Cristo (1776)
Vocal	Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia 1785
Portrayals	Mozart and Salieri (1832 play , 1898 opera) Amadeus (1979 play , 1984 film)
Category Commons

v t e Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered
Characters	Armida Clorinda Tancred, Prince of Galilee
Films	The Crusaders (1918) The Mighty Crusaders (1958)
Operas	Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (1628) Armide (1686) Tancrède (1702) Rinaldo (1711) Armida al campo d'Egitto (1718) Armida abbandonata (1770) Armida (1771) Armida (1772) Armide (1777) Armida (1780) Renaud (1783) Armida (1784) Armida (1817) Armida (1904) Armida (2005)
Related	Rinaldo Rinaldo discography

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