Rosmira

Theater an der Wien, Wien

If the prophet does not come to the mountain, the mountain must come to the prophet: The Neapolitan Queen Partenope is being courted by various men, including Prince Arsace. Arsace has spared no expense or effort to achieve this and has also abandoned his fiancée Rosmira. But she takes her fate into her own hands: disguised as the Armenian Prince Eurimene, she travels to Naples, presents herself as Partenope's suitor and fights for Arsace's love. Antonio Vivaldi's work, which premiered at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice in 1738, is a pastiche: the music is partly by Vivaldi himself, but he also included arias by Handel (who had composed his opera Partenope from the same libretto by Stampiglia eight years earlier), Hasse, Pergolesi, Vinci and others in the score. Vivaldi set the recitatives to music himself. Through this process, the composer created a work that has few equals in its rich variety and thus aptly illustrates the numerous and sometimes extremely comical capers of the plot.

Concert performance in Italian with German surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before the start of the performance