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See also Marie Sallé
Marie Sallé

Marie Sall? was a French dancer and choreographer known for her expressive, dramatic performances rather than a series of "leaps and frolics" typical of ballet of her time....
, whose stage name was "La Vestale".

La vestale (The Vestal Virgin) is an opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 composed by Gaspare Spontini
Gaspare Spontini

Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini was an Italy opera composer and conducting....
 to a French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
 libretto
Libretto

A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, Musical theater, and ballet....
 by Etienne de Jouy. It was first performed at the Paris Opéra
Paris Opera

Paris Opera may refer to:In theaters:*Th??tre de l'Acad?mie Royale de Musique, the official theatre of the French theatrical institution known as the Acad?mie Royale de Musique from 1821 until 1873...
 in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 on December 15, 1807.

La vestale is a famous opera in historical terms but is only very infrequently performed. There are several recordings of it. Two of its arias (translated to Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
 and recorded by Maria Callas
Maria Callas

Maria Callas was an American-born Greeks soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the twentieth century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique with great dramatic gifts....
 and Rosa Ponselle
Rosa Ponselle

Rosa Ponselle , was an American operatic soprano. She sang mainly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and is generally considered by music critics to have been one of the greatest sopranos of the past 100 years....
), "Tu che invoco" and "O Nume tutelar", are better known than the work as a whole.










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See also Marie Sallé
Marie Sallé

Marie Sall? was a French dancer and choreographer known for her expressive, dramatic performances rather than a series of "leaps and frolics" typical of ballet of her time....
, whose stage name was "La Vestale".

La vestale (The Vestal Virgin) is an opera
Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
 composed by Gaspare Spontini
Gaspare Spontini

Gaspare Luigi Pacifico Spontini was an Italy opera composer and conducting....
 to a French
French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
 libretto
Libretto

A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, sacred or secular oratorio and cantata, Musical theater, and ballet....
 by Etienne de Jouy. It was first performed at the Paris Opéra
Paris Opera

Paris Opera may refer to:In theaters:*Th??tre de l'Acad?mie Royale de Musique, the official theatre of the French theatrical institution known as the Acad?mie Royale de Musique from 1821 until 1873...
 in Paris
Paris

Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
 on December 15, 1807.

La vestale is a famous opera in historical terms but is only very infrequently performed. There are several recordings of it. Two of its arias (translated to Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
 and recorded by Maria Callas
Maria Callas

Maria Callas was an American-born Greeks soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the twentieth century. She combined an impressive bel canto technique with great dramatic gifts....
 and Rosa Ponselle
Rosa Ponselle

Rosa Ponselle , was an American operatic soprano. She sang mainly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and is generally considered by music critics to have been one of the greatest sopranos of the past 100 years....
), "Tu che invoco" and "O Nume tutelar", are better known than the work as a whole.



Roles

RoleVoice typePremiere Cast,
(Conductor: )
Licinius, Roman
Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the Roman Republic phase of the Ancient Rome, characterised by an autocracy form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....
 general		tenor
Tenor

The tenor is a type of male voice type and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C to the A above in choral music, and up to high C in solo work....
Étienne Lainez
Cinna, head of a legionbaritone
Baritone

Baritone is a type of European classical music male voice type that lies between the bass and tenor voices. It is the most common male voice....
François Lay or Lays
Chief PriestbassHenri Étienne Dérivis
Julia, young vestalsoprano
Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four part chorale style harmony the soprano takes the highest part which usually encompasses the melody....
Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu
Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu

Alexandrine-Caroline Branchu was a France opera soprano. She was born in Cap-Ha?tien, Ha?ti at a time when Haiti was a French colonial empires....
The Great Vestalmezzo-soprano
Mezzo-soprano

A mezzo-soprano is a type of European classical music female voice type whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above ....
Marie-Thérèse Maillard
Chief of the Aruspices  
A consul