Armida al campo d'Egitto

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Armida al campo d'Egitto
Opera by Antonio Vivaldi
Probable portrait of Antonio Vivaldi, c. 1723
Librettist	Antonio Maria Lucchini
Language	Italian
Premiere	1718 (1718) Teatro San Moisè, Venice

Armida al campo d'Egitto is an opera in three acts by Antonio Vivaldi to a libretto by Giovanni Palazzi. It was first performed during the Carnival season of 1718 at the Teatro San Moisè in Venice. Vivaldi's version is different from the more than 50 operas whose themes derive in varying degrees from the story of Rinaldo and Armida in Torquato Tasso's epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered).^[1] Unlike the more than 50 operas based on the romance of Rinaldo and Armida, Vivaldi's version starts during previous events before the war against the Crusaders. Armida was revived for the Carnival season of 1738, with much of the music rewritten, and arias by Leonardo Leo added. Act II of the original version of the opera is now lost.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere cast^[2]
Armida, a royal princess	contralto	Antonia Merighi
Califfo, King of Egypt	bass	Annibale Imperatori
Tisaferno	contralto castrato	Francesco Braganti
Adrasto	contralto (en travesti)	Costanza Maccari
Emireno, a general	soprano castrato	Francesco Natali
Erminia, a royal princess	soprano	Chiara Orlandi
Osmira, Califfo's niece	soprano	Rosa Venturini

Recordings

Complete recording with a restored version of Act II:

Armida al campo d'Egitto (Concerto Italiano; Rinaldo Alessandrini, conductor). Label: Naïve OP30492. (2010)

The overture to Armida al campo d'Egitto can be heard on:

Vivaldi: Opera Overtures (I Solisti Veneti; Claudio Scimone, conductor). Label: Apex 2564605372.
Sinfonie d'opera (I Virtuosi delle Muse; Stefano Molardi, conductor). Label: Divox CDX 70501–6.

Two arias from the work, Invan la mia pietà tenta l'ingrato and Chi alla colpa fà tragitto, can be heard on:

Vivaldi: Arie Per Basso (Lorenzo Regazzo, bass; Concerto Italiano; Rinaldo Alessandrini, conductor). Label: Naive 30415.

References

Notes

^ Jellinek, George (1994) p.,. 354
^ Libretti a stampa: Armida al campo d'Egitto Archived 2011-09-28 at the Wayback Machine, www.italianopera.org. Accessed 30 September 2008

Sources

Booth, John (1989) Vivaldi, Omnibus Press, p. 71. ISBN 0-7119-1727-2
Jellinek, George (1994) History Through the Opera Glass: From the Rise of Caesar to the Fall of Napoleon, Pro/Am Music Resources, p. 354. ISBN 0-912483-90-3

Antonio Vivaldi

Operas

Ottone in villa (1713)
Orlando furioso (RV 819) (1714)
Orlando finto pazzo (1714)
Nerone fatto Cesare (1715)
La costanza trionfante degl'amori e de gl'odii (1716)
Arsilda, regina di Ponto (1716)
L'incoronazione di Dario (1717)
Tieteberga (1717)
Armida al campo d'Egitto (1718)
Scanderbeg (1718)
Teuzzone (1718)
Tito Manlio (1719)
La verità in cimento (1720)
La Silvia (1721)
Ercole su'l Termodonte (1723)
Giustino (1724)
Dorilla in Tempe (1726)
Farnace (1727)
Orlando furioso (RV 728) (1727)
Atenaide (1728)
Argippo (1730)
Alvilda regina de' Goti (1731)
Semiramide (1732)
La fida ninfa (1732)
Motezuma (1733)
L'Olimpiade (1734)
Bajazet (1735)
Griselda (1735)
L'oracolo in Messenia (1737)

Sacred music

Works with Op.

Twelve Trio Sonatas, Op. 1 (1705)
Twelve Trio Sonatas, Op. 2 (1709)
L'estro armonico, Op. 3 (1711)
La stravaganza, Op. 4 (1714)
Six Violin Sonatas, Op. 5 (1716)
Six Violin Concertos, Op. 6 (1716–1721)
Twelve Concertos, Op. 7 (1716–1717)
Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, Op. 8
- 1723, includes Le quattro stagioni
Mandolin Concerto, RV 425 (1725)
La cetra, Op. 9 (1727)
Concerto alla rustica for string orchestra (c. 1725–1730)
Six Flute Concertos, Op. 10 (1728)
Six Concertos, Op. 11 (1729)
Six Violin Concertos, Op. 12 (1729)
Grosso mogul, RV 208 (early violin concerto)
Flute Concerto Il gran mogol, RV 431a (c. 1730)
Lute Concerto, RV 93 (1730s)
Concerto in C major, RV 559

Other

Namesakes

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

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	United States France BnF data
Other	MusicBrainz work