Didone abbandonata is an opera libretto in three acts by Pietro Metastasio. It was his first original work and was set to music by Domenico Sarro in 1724. The opera was accompanied by the intermezzo L'impresario delle Isole Canarie, also by Metastasio.
During the century that followed, it was set more than 50 times by other composers such as Nicola Porpora (1725), Leonardo Vinci (1726), Baldassare Galuppi (1740), Johann Adolph Hasse (1742), Niccolò Jommelli (1747), Tommaso Traetta (1757), Giuseppe Sarti (1762), Niccolò Piccinni (1770), Saverio Mercadante (1823).
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Didone Abbandonata Schwetzingen 7XII15
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G. Tartini: Sonata in g "DIDONE ABBANDONATA" / musica cubicularis
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Tartini: Sonata in g minor "Didone abbandonata"
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External links
- Complete libretto (in Italian)