7/16/2023 0 Comments Vivaldi armida![]() This essay seeks to clarify the reasons for that remarkable success. Thus configured, Jommelli’s opera held the stage until 1772, enjoying fifteen revivals with most of the original music intact – a record in the composer’s oeuvre. Instead, the opera transposes the myth of Iphigenia in Aulis to the Roman Republic, having Marius, his daughter, her lover and her villainous suitor assume the roles of Agamemnon, Iphigenia, Achilles and Ajax respectively. In contrast to what its title suggests, Niccolo` Jommelli’s Cajo Mario (Rome, 1746) has little to do with the consul Caius Marius (157–86 BC).
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