Tamiri's mother, Berenice, hates Farnace and is in cahoots with Pompey, the Roman victor, to kill him. The opera tells the story of Pharnaces II according to the uses of the time there is no historical accuracy since the fate of Pharnaces is quite different from the one in history books.įarnace, King of Pontus, has been defeated, and to avoid their falling into the hands of the enemy, he commands his wife, Tamiri, to kill their son and then herself. Roles Roles, voice types, premiere cast RoleĪnna Maddalena Giraud, also named " la (or Annina) Girò "Īngela Capuano Romana, also named " la Capuanina" It is mainly the Vivaldi setting that continues to attract interest today.
One later setting is the one composed by Josef Mysliveček for the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples in 1767.
Additional settings continued to be composed as late as the 1780s. Corselli's Farnace received its debut in Madrid at the Royal Theater of the Buen Retiro in 1739. The best known libretto on this subject, however, was written by Antonio Maria Lucchini and set by Vinci and Vivaldi.įarnace was recomposed by Francesco Corselli (1705–1778) (an Italian composer with a French father). The earliest version was written by Lorenzo Morari with music by Antonio Caldara, first performed at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice in 1703. Popular at the time, and revived with great success at the Sporck theater in Prague in 1730, Vivaldi's Farnace ( RV 711) slipped into oblivion until the last quarter of the 20th century when it emerged from obscurity.įarnace is the title of several 18th-century operas set to various librettos. Vivaldi's setting received its first performance in 1727 at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice. Farnace is an opera by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, set to a libretto by Antonio Maria Lucchini initially set by Leonardo Vinci during 1724.
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