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Statira principessa di Persia (Stateira

Stateira

Stateira or Statira may refer to:Names* Stateira * Stateira I, wife of Darius III of Persia* Stateira II, daughter of Stateira I and Darius III of PersiaOperas* La Statira , opera by Tomaso Albioni...

, Princess of Persia) is an opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

- more specifically, a dramma per musica

Dramma per musica

Dramma per musica is a term which was used by dramatists in Italy and elsewhere between the late-17th and mid-19th centuries...

- in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli

Francesco Cavalli

Francesco Cavalli was an Italian composer of the early Baroque period. His real name was Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni, but he is better known by that of Cavalli, the name of his patron Federico Cavalli, a Venetian nobleman.-Life:Cavalli was born at Crema, Lombardy...

, set to a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello

Giovanni Francesco Busenello

Giovanni Francesco Busenello was an Italian lawyer, librettist and poet of the 17th century.Born to a high-class family of Venice, it is thought that he studied at the University of Padua, where according to himself he was taught by Paolo Sarpi and Cesare Cremonino...

. The opera was first performed in Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

at the Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo

Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo

The Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo was a theatre and opera house in Venice located on the Calle della Testa, and takes its name from the nearby Basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. Built by the Grimani family in 1638, in its heyday it was considered the most beautiful and comfortable theatre...

, on 18 January 1656.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, January 18, 1655 (Conductor: - )
Brisante	contralto Contralto Contralto is the deepest female classical singing voice, with the lowest tessitura, falling between tenor and mezzo-soprano. It typically ranges between the F below middle C to the second G above middle C , although at the extremes some voices can reach the E below middle C or the second B above...
Cloridaspe	mezzo-soprano Mezzo-soprano A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...
Elissena	tenor Tenor The tenor is a type of male singing voice and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between C3, the C one octave below middle C, to the A above middle C in choral music, and up to high C in solo work. The low extreme for tenors is roughly B2...
Ermosilla	soprano Soprano A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...
Usimano	soprano
Floralba	soprano
Eurillo	soprano
Maga	soprano
Mercurio	tenor
Brimonte	tenor
Plutone	bass
Nicarco	bass
Dario	bass
Statira	soprano
Tersandro	soprano
Vaffrino	tenor
Servo Indiano	backing singer Backing vocalist A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...

Synopsis

In the epistle dedicatory to the original libretto, Busenello explains the plot as follows:

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