CAVALLI: Xerse

CAVALLI: Xerse [12 January]. Venice , SS.G. e P. Text by N. Minato. Prologue and 3 acts. One of Cavalli’s most celebrated works. Given at Genoa 1656; Naples 1657; revived at Venice 1657 (with new prologue, intermezzi and other additions); Bologna 1657 (with alterations); Palermo 1658 (first opera ever produced there; with alterations and comic intermezzi); Verona 1665 and Milan 1665 (altered by C. Righenzi ). In Italian also given at Paris 22 November 1660 (at the Grande Galerie du Louvre…