Atenaide (RV 702) is an opera by Antonio Vivaldi to a revised edition of a 1709 libretto by Apostolo Zeno for Caldara.Julie Anne Sadie, Companion to Baroque Music 1998, p. 259: "... by Charles VI, for whom he had provided two librettos during his residence in Barcelona as Charles III the Pretender; Atenaide (1709) and Scipione nelle Spagne (c1710) were collaboratively set by A. S. Fiore, Antonio Caldara and Gasparini." It was first performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence on 29 December 1728 for the 1729 Carnival season."Work details", Corago, University of Bologna
Roles +RoleVoice typePremiere cast:"Libretto (1729)", p. 529 December 1728, FlorenceTeodosio II, emperor, in love with Atenaidesoprano castratoGaetano VallettaAtenaide (also called Eudossa), Leontino's daughtersopranoGiustina TurcottiPulcheria, Teodosio's sistercontraltoAnna GiròVarane, son of Isdegarde (King of Persia), also in love with AtenaidecontraltoLisabetta MorotenorAnnibal Pio FabbriMarziano, general of Teodosio, in love with PulcheriacontraltoAnna Maria FainiProbo, praetorian prefect, also in love with PulcheriatenorGaetano Baroni
Recordings 2007: Sandrine Piau, Vivica Genaux, Guillemette Laurens, Romina Basso, Nathalie Stutzmann, Paul Agnew, Stefano Ferrari, Modo Antiquo, Federico Maria Sardelli. 3CDs Naïve Records
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