page_title: Odoardo Ceccarelli
section_title: Compositions and writings
hierarchical_section_title: Odoardo Ceccarelli / Compositions and writings
caption_attribution_description: English: Act 3, Scene 10 of Erminia sul Giordano, an opera composed by Michelangelo Rossi to a libretto by Giulio Rospigliosi (Pope Clemens IX), first performed at the Palazzo Barberini, Rome, 1633. The singers were Angelo Ferrotti (Erminia), Marc'Antonio Pasqualini (Laurinda), Girolamo Zampetti (Lidia), Francesco Bianchi (Tancredi) , Odoardo Ceccarelli (Fileno), Bartolomeo Nicolini (Montano), and Michelangelo Rossi (Apollo), (Selvaggio), (Corebo), (Ergasto), (Eurillo), (Armindo), This is one of 5 illustrations of the opera published in the 1637 edition of the libretto
context_page_description: Odoardo Ceccarelli was an Italian singer, composer, and writer prominent in the Sistine Chapel Choir and the Barberini court. Described from the beginning of his career as both a tenor and a bass, he created roles in several operas, including Fileno in Michelangelo Rossi's Erminia sul Giordano and Orlando in Luigi Rossi's Il palazzo incantato.
context_section_description: Ceccarelli composed several pieces of music, including a lyric drama in Latin for four sopranos and chorus, an idyll in Italian for five voices, and a cantata for soprano and bass, Ecco il re del cielo immenso. However, the only extant score is Ecco il re del cielo immenso, which is held in the Biblioteca Casanatense. In 1634, at the request of Pope Urban VIII, he began work with Sante Naldini, Stefano Landi, and Gregorio Allegri to adapt the vocal music of older breviaries and to improve and annotate the texts of Palestrina's vocal music. The result of their work, Hymni Sacri in Breviario Romano, was published in 1644.
  Described by Adami, Liberati, and Fétis as an erudite man of letters and an excellent writer of poetic texts for music in both Latin and Italian, Ceccarelli also authored two prose works on images of the Virgin Mary in Rome, both published in 1647. La miracolosa imagine della Madonna delle Gratie depinta da S. Luca describes an image of Mary in Santa Maria della Consolazione purportedly painted by Saint Luke and the miracles associated with it. Breve racconto della manifestatione della devotissima imagine della santissima Vergine describes the restoration of a fresco depicting Mary in the portico of Sant'Apollinare which survived the Sack of Rome in 1527 because the priests had it plastered over to hide it from the invaders.
caption: Finale of Erminia sul Giordano in which Ceccarelli created the role of Fileno
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