L'innocenza giustificata (Innocence Justified) is an opera by the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck. It takes the form of a festa teatrale in one act. The Italian-language libretto combines recitatives by Giacomo Durazzo with arias by Pietro Metastasio. The opera premiered on 8 December 1755 at the Burgtheater in Vienna.
Roles CastVoice typePremiere castClaudia, a vestal virginsopranoCaterina GabrielliValerio, a Roman consultenorCarlo CarlaniFlaminia, Claudia's sister, priestess of the goddess VestasopranoMarianna BeneventiFlavio, a Roman knightsoprano castratoTommaso GuarducciChorus: Roman senators, knights, lictors, people
Recordings L'innocenza giustificata María Bayo (Claudia), Veronica Cangemi (Flavio), Andreas Karasiak (Valerio), Marina De Liso (Flaminia), ChorWerk Ruhr, Cappella Coloniensis, conducted by Christopher Moulds (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 2004)
Sources Booklet notes to the Moulds recording by Ingo Dorfmüller Holden, Amanda The Viking Opera Guide (Viking, 1993), page 373. Gluck-Gesamtausgabe. L'innocenza giustificata. Institut für Musikwissenschaft, Goethe-Universität