Armida (Sacchini)

Antonio Sacchini

Operas Creso (1765) La contadina in corte (1765) Calliroe (1770) Armida (1772) Renaud (1783) Chimène (1783) Dardanus (1784) Œdipe à Colone (1786) Arvire et Évélina (1788)

Armida is an opera seria in three acts with music by Antonio Sacchini set to a libretto by Jacopo Durandi (a.k.a. Giacomo Duranti), based on the epic poem Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso. The opera was first performed during the 1772 Carnival season at the Teatro Regio Ducal in Milan.

In Armida, Sacchini incorporated many elements of French opera, including frequent use of chorus, ballet, and theatrical spectacle on a grand scale. Sacchini later wrote two more operas loosely based on the same story from Tasso: the 1780 London work Rinaldo, and his first French opera, Renaud, which was dedicated to Marie Antoinette.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere cast^[1] 11 February 1772
Armida	soprano	Antonia Girelli Aguilar
Rinaldo	soprano castrato	Vito Giuseppe Millico
Ubaldo	bass	Giovanni Battista Zonca
Idreno	alto castrato	Giuseppe Cicognani
Clotarco	contralto	Rosa Polidora

References

↑ source: excerpt from the original libretto, in italianopera.org

Dennis Libby. "Armida (iii)". In L. Root, Deane. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)

Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered

Characters	Armida Clorinda Tancred, Prince of Galilee

Films	The Crusaders (1918) The Mighty Crusaders (1958)

Operas	Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (1628) Armide (1686) Tancrède (1702) Rinaldo (1711) Armida al campo d'Egitto (1718) Armida abbandonata (1770) Armida (1771) Armida (1772) Armide (1777) Armida (1780) Renaud (1783) Armida (1784) Armida (1817) Armida (1904) Armida (2005)

Related	Rinaldo Rinaldo discography

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