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La Virtù dei Strali d'Amore (The Power of Love's Arrows) was composed by the prolific Venetian opera composer Francesco Cavalli - a pupil of Claudio Monteverdi - with a libretto by Giovanni Faustini. The story is part serious and part comic, filled with love, confusion, intrigue, and an unmanageably large cast of characters (twenty-five in all).

La Virtù premiered at the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice in 1642. After being presumed lost for many years, it was rediscovered. Its first modern performance was staged in 2007 by Bowling Green State University and the Eastman School for the Performing Arts, and its first performance in Italy since the seventeenth century took place at Venice's Teatro Malibran in October 2008. (The latter performance solved the problem of the large cast by having each singer play multiple roles.)

Characters in La Virtù dei Strali d'Amore

Humans

  • Erabena, princess of Athens (Soprano)
  • Meonte, her lover (Tenor)
  • Pallante, prince of Thrace (Tenor)
  • Erino, his servant (Soprano)
  • Evagora, king of Cyprus (Baritone)
  • Darete, his son (Baritone)
  • Cleria, his sister (Soprano)
  • Clito and Leucippe, her friends (Soprani)
  • Cleandra, a good sorceress (Soprano)
  • Ericlea, an evil sorceress (Soprano)
  • Clarindo, a peasant (Soprano)
  • Dalinda, his lover (Soprano)
  • Alfisa, her sister (Soprano)
  • Two sailors (Tenor and Baritone)

Gods

  • Amore (Cupid), god of love (Soprano)
  • Psiche (Psyche), his wife (Soprano)
  • Venere (Venus), goddess of love and Amore's mother (Soprano)
  • Marte (Mars), god of war (Baritone)
  • Giove (Jupiter), king of the gods (Baritone)
  • Mercurio (Mercury), his messenger (Tenor)
  • Saturno (Saturn), god of the harvest (Baritone)
  • Aurora, goddess of dawn (Soprano)
  • Fama (Pheme), goddess of rumor (Soprano)

Synopsis of La Virtù dei Strali d'Amore


January 26, 2012
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