page_title: Alessandro nell'Indie (Metastasio)
hierarchical_section_title: Alessandro nell'Indie (Metastasio)
caption_attribution_description: Español: Pietro Metastasio, grabado de Johann Nepomuk Steiner (1725 – 1793)
context_page_description: Alessandro nell'Indie is a libretto in three acts by Pietro Metastasio. It was set to music around ninety times firstly by Leonardo Vinci, whose version premiered in Rome on 2 January 1730. The libretto was the fourth of five that Metastasio wrote for the Teatro delle Dame in Rome between 1727 and 1730. The work was dedicated to the Stuart pretender to the British throne, James Francis Edward Stuart, then resident in Rome.
  Alessandro nell'Indie became Metastasio's second most popular work, after Artaserse. Both were written for the Rome carnival season
context_section_description: Alessandro nell'Indie (lit. 'Alexander in India') is a libretto in three acts by Pietro Metastasio. It was set to music around ninety times firstly by Leonardo Vinci, whose version premiered in Rome on 2 January 1730. The libretto was the fourth of five that Metastasio wrote for the Teatro delle Dame in Rome between 1727 and 1730. The work was dedicated to the Stuart pretender to the British throne, James Francis Edward Stuart, then resident in Rome.
  Alessandro nell'Indie became Metastasio's second most popular work, after Artaserse. Both were written for the Rome carnival season
caption: Pietro Metastasio
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