Ciro
Subtitle: drama per musica, nel Teatro a SS. Gio. e Paolo l'anno 1665 : all'altezza serenissima di Madama Sofia duchessa di Bransvich, e Luneburg nata prencipessa elettorale palatina
Contributors: Sophia, Electress, consort of Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover, 1630-1714, dedicatee; Mattioli, Andrea; Cavalli, Pier Francesco, 1602-1676; Giuliano, Andrea, publisher; Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo (Venice, Italy); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Per il Giuliani
Published: 1665
Place of publication: In Venetia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; Ballets; Scenarios
Work titles: Ciro
Notes: Libretto for an opera in a prologue and 3 acts.

Without the music, originally by Francesco Provenzale and augmented for later performances with new arias by Pier Francesco Cavalli and Andrea Mattioli; original version first performed in Naples; this version first performed in Venice at the Teatro di Santi Giovanni e Paolo, 30 January 1653. Cf. Grove music online.

Includes engraved frontispiece at beginning depicting a scene from the opera; signed Li fig.

Printer's dedication, signed "Andrea Giuliani"--P. 3-4.

"Torna di nuovo questo drama à ricalcar le scene del famosissimo Theatro Grimano, dove prima sece pompa de suoi splendori ... lo troverai secondato di nuove ariette per meglo compiacerti. A queste ha fatta la musica il virtuosissimo signor Andrea Mattioli mastro di capella dell'A. Sereniss. di Mantoa"--P. 5.

"Interlocutori"--P. [9]; does not include performers.

Error in pagination: p. 17-76 misnumbered 25-84.

Includes head-pieces, decorated initials.

Sartori, Claudio.  Libretti, 5665

Sonneck, O.G.T.  Librettos, p. 288