Tolomeo
Sign in to savethumb|Autograph of Tolomeo, 1728 '''''Tolomeo, re d'Egitto''''' ("Ptolemy, King of Egypt", HWV 25) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Carlo Sigismondo Capece's Tolomeo et Alessandro. It was Handel's 13th (or 14th if the one act Handel contributed to the collaborative opera Muzio Scevola is counted) and last opera for the Royal Academy of Music (1719) and was also the last of the operas he composed for the triumvirate of internationally renowned singers, the castrato Senesino and the sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and
Wikidata facts
- Genre
- opera seria
- Composer
- George Frideric Handel
- Librettist
- Nicola Francesco Haym
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- date of first performance
- 1728-04-30
- Commons category
- Tolomeo
- language of work or name
- Italian
- catalog code
- 25
- number of parts of this work
- 3
- publication date
- 1800-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- form of creative work
- opera
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Performance history
- Roles
- Synopsis
- Act 1
- Act 2
- Act 3
- Context and analysis
- Recordings
- References
- External links
thumb|Autograph of Tolomeo, 1728 '''''Tolomeo, re d'Egitto''''' ("Ptolemy, King of Egypt", HWV 25) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel to an Italian text by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Carlo Sigismondo Capece's Tolomeo et Alessandro. It was Handel's 13th (or 14th if the one act Handel contributed to the collaborative opera Muzio Scevola is counted) and last opera for the Royal Academy of Music (1719) and was also the last of the operas he composed for the triumvirate of internationally renowned singers, the castrato Senesino and the sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni.
The story of the opera is a fictionalisation of some events in the life of Ptolemy IX Lathyros, king of Egypt.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tolomeo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.