Artaserse (Hasse)
Artaserse is an opera in three acts composed by Johann Adolph Hasse to an Italian libretto adapted from that by Metastasio by Giovanni Boldini. It premiered at the Teatro di San Giovanni Grisostomo in Venice on 11 February 1730, shortly after the libretto's first setting by Leonardo Vinci premiered in Rome 6 days earlier. Metastasio's libretto, Artaserse, has been used in more than 90 works. Hasse himself would later re-work the score for performances at the Opernhaus am Zwinger in Dresden and the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples.Roles
Recordings
- Hasse Artaserse, Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, conductor: Corrado Rovaris; Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani as Artaserse, Maria Grazia Schiavo as Mandane, Sonia Prina as Artabano, Franco Fagioli as Arbace, Rosa Bove as Semira, Antonio Giovannini as Megabise. Recording date: July 2012, Festival della Valle d'Itria, Martina Franca release: 2016, Label: Dynamic Cat. CDS7715/1–3, 37715.
