TERRADELLAS: Sesostri Re d’Egitto

TERRADELLAS: Sesostri Re d’Egitto Carnival. Rome, T. delle Dame Text by A. Zeno and P. Pariati (first set to music by Gasparini in 1709). Three acts. Terradellas’s last opera. The story that Jommelli was so jealous of the success of Sesostri as to poison his rival Terradellas (who died 20 May, 1751) first occurs in A.M.Z., 1800, no.24, and was taken over by very many books and magazines. It seems that Friedrich Rochlitz , editor of the Leipzig periodical, simply invented it as no trace of the…