Siroe
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Siroe, re di Persia (or 'Siroes, King of Persia') is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Nicola Francesco Haym, after Pietro Metastasio's Siroe. The libretto was also set by Handel's contemporaries Leonardo Vinci and Johann Adolf Hasse.
It was Handel's 12th opera for the Royal Academy of Music. It was written for the sopranos Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni.
[edit] Performance history
The opera was first given at the King's Theatre in London on 17 February 1728 and it was also seen in Brunswick. It was rediscovered and performed in Gera in December 1925.
[edit] Sources
Siroe by Anthony Hicks, in 'The New Grove Dictionary of Opera', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
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