La Dorilla, RV 709

Reduction for Voice and Piano based on the Critical Edition
The present reduction derives from the critical edition of the score, published in this catalog in November 2019. Antonio Vivaldi’s La Dorilla, a heroic-pastoral opera on a libretto by Antonio Maria Lucchini, was premiered at the Teatro Sant Angelo in Venice on 6 November 1726. Six years later it was revived in a much shortened and altered form at the Sporck Theatre in Prague. In 1734 it returned for the last time to the Venetian stage at the Teatro Sant Angelo, where, despite being greatly revised, it was once again successful. Many of its recitatives had been shortened and several arias replaced, some with movements borrowed from other operas by Vivaldi and some with arias taken from ones by other composers, such as Johann Adolf Hasse, Geminiano Giacomelli, Domenico Sarro and Leonardo Leo. The adaptation was the work of the Venetian man of letters Bartolomeo Vitturi, who adjusted the libretto with the precise aim of satisfying the demands of the public, which wished to hear the most famous pieces by the composers who were fashionable in those years. This vocal-score edition includes a synthetic introduction of the historical context, the description of the main source employed and a choice of the critical Notes to the musical text.

Additional Information

SKU: 50603505
UPC: 840126929034
ISBN-10: 8881920549
ISBN-13: 9788881920549
Series: Vocal Score
Page Count: 252
Contributors: – Vivaldi – It. – Intro in It./Eng. –