Ciro riconosciuto
Ciro riconosciuto is an opera libretto in three acts by Pietro Metastasio, dating to around 1736.Settings
It has only been set less than thirty times and was performed for the first time on 28 August 1736 at festivities in Vienna for the birthday of Elisabeth Christine, wife of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor. At that performance it was set to music by Antonio Caldara. A second setting by Niccolò Jommellis was written in Venice in 1749 - this was highly esteemed by Metastasio himself, as was a setting by Johann Adolph Hasse for the Dresden opera in 1751 in which Hasse's wife Faustina Bordoni played Mandane. Gioacchino Cocchi composed a setting for a London premiere in 1759 - it was considered his best Italian opera. A German translation of the libretto appeared in 1772 under the title of Der erkannte Cyrus in the fourth volume of Johann Anton Koch's unfinished complete edition of Metastasio's works.
