La fida ninfa (The Faithful Nymph, RV 714) is an opera by Antonio Vivaldi to a libretto by Scipione Maffei. The opera was first performed for the opening of the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona on 6 January 1732.Karl Heller. Antonio Vivaldi: The Red Priest of Venice (1997), p. 108: "... and La fida ninfa to initiate the Teatro Filarmonico on 6 January 1732."Michael Talbot. The Vivaldi Compendium (2011), p. xxiii: "In January 1732 La fida ninfa, an exceptionally prestigious commission, inaugurated ..." Among the arias is "Alma oppressa de sorte crudele" (Soul oppressed by cruel fate).
Recording La fida ninfa – Sandrine Piau, , Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Lorenzo Regazzo, Philippe Jaroussky, Sara Mingardo, Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi; Naïve Records, 3CDs; recorded Cathédrale Notre-Dame-du-Liban de Paris April/May 2008
See also List of operas by Antonio Vivaldi
References
Further reading Il teatro di Scipione Maffei (La Merope, Le cerimonie, Il raguet, e La fida ninfa). Edited by Teresa Copelli, Luigi Battei, Parma, 1905.