Roman dictator
Silla (full title "Lucio Cornelio Silla", HWV 10) is an opera seria (referred to as a "dramma per musica") in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Giacomo Rossi. The story concerns the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla (138–78 BC) as recounted by Plutarch.