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Muzio Scevola (1721)
Act I: Filipo Amadei
Act II: Giovanni Bononcini
Act III: George Frideric Handel (Georg Friedrich Händel)
Recordings
 Handel.
Muzio Scevola - Act 3. (HWV 13, London 1721). Newport
Classics NPD 85540 (2 CDs 1992). Rudolf Palmer, Brewer Baroque
Chamber Orchestra. Muzio Scevola: D'Anna Fortunato, contralto;
Clelia: Julianne Baird, soprano; Orazio: Erie Mills, soprano;
Fidalma: Andrea Matthews, soprano; Irene: Jennifer Lane,
contralto; Tarquinio: Frederick Urrey, tenor; Porsenna: John
Ostendorf, bass. Includes excerpts from Bononcini's Act 2 and
his earlier setting. Great one-act opera, but unfortunate that
Vox/Newport got to it first. A typically dismal performance, and
the booklet is slightly too large for the jewel box, causing it
to warp.
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Related Operas
Giovanni Bononcini. Muzio Scevola (Venice 1710). Libretto by Silvio Stampiglia. Strohm wrote: "Rolli's libretto seems to be partly indebted to Stampiglia, although none of Bononcini's 1710 music appeared in his London setting of the second act." (p. 45).
Original Cast
Muzio Scevola: Senesino, alto castrato; Clelia: Margherita Durastanti, soprano; Orazio: Matteo Berselli, soprano castrato; Fidalma: Maddelena Salvai, soprano; Irene: Anastasia Robinson, contralto; Tarquinio: Caterina Galerati, soprano; Porsenna: Giuseppe Maria Boschi, bass.
References
Winton Dean & J. Merrill Knapp. Handel's Operas, 1704-1726. (Oxford University Press 1995 (1987)).
R. Strohm, "Handel and his Italian opera texts." Essays on Handel and the Italian Opera. (Oxford University Press 1985).