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Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, December 26, 1772 (Conductor: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
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	Topics Lucio Silla Topic Home *Lucio Silla* (K135) is an Italian 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.... in three acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always... . The 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.... was written by Giovanni de Gamerra Giovanni de Gamerra Giovanni de Gamerra was a cleric, a playwright, and a poet. He is best known as a prolific Libretto.Gamerra was born in Livorno, and worked from 1771 at the Teatro Regio Ducal in Milan ? an important centre for opera at the time.... . It was first performed on 26 December 1772 at the Regio Ducal Teatro in Milan Milan Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy.... . Other operas by the same title were also done in 1774 by Pasquale Anfossi Pasquale Anfossi Bonifacio Domenico Pasquale Anfossi was an Italy opera composer. Born in Taggia, Liguria, he studied with Niccol? Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, and worked mainly in London, Venice and Rome.... and in 1776 by Johann Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach Johann Christian Bach was a composer of the Classical music era era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as 'the London Bach' or 'the English Bach', due to his time spent living in the British capital.... . le class="wikitable">
Lucio Silla (Lucius Cornelius Sulla Lucius Cornelius Sulla Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix , or simply Sulla, was a Roman general and politician, holding the office of consul twice as well as the Roman dictator.... ), dictator of Rome	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....	Bassano Morgnoni
Celia, sister of Lucio Silla	soprano 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....	Daniella Mienci
Giunia (Junia), betrothed to Cecilio	soprano	Anna de Amicis-Buonsolazzi
Cecilio (Cecilius), Roman senator in exile	soprano castrato Castrato A castrato is a man with a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto human voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or one who, because of an endocrinology condition, never reaches sexual maturity....	Venanzio Rauzzini
Lucio (Lucius) Cinna, friend of Cecilio	soprano	Felicità Suardi
Aufidio (Aufidius), tribune and friend of Lucio Silla	tenor	Giuseppe Onofrio
Guards, nobles, senators, people (chorus)

story concerns the Roman dictator Lucio Silla (Lucius Sulla) who lusts after Giunia, the daughter of his enemy Caius Marius.

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Lucio Silla (K135) is an Italian 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....
in three acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood in Salzburg. Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty; at seventeen he was engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and traveled in search of a better position, always...
. The 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....
was written by Giovanni de Gamerra

Giovanni de Gamerra

Giovanni de Gamerra was a cleric, a playwright, and a poet. He is best known as a prolific Libretto.Gamerra was born in Livorno, and worked from 1771 at the Teatro Regio Ducal in Milan ? an important centre for opera at the time....
.

It was first performed on 26 December 1772 at the Regio Ducal Teatro in Milan

Milan

Milan is the second largest city of Italy, located in the plains of Lombardy. It is the capital in the Province of Milan, as well as the Regions of Italy capital of Lombardy....
.

Other operas by the same title were also done in 1774 by Pasquale Anfossi

Pasquale Anfossi

Bonifacio Domenico Pasquale Anfossi was an Italy opera composer. Born in Taggia, Liguria, he studied with Niccol? Piccinni and Antonio Sacchini, and worked mainly in London, Venice and Rome....
and in 1776 by Johann Christian Bach

Johann Christian Bach

Johann Christian Bach was a composer of the Classical music era era, the eleventh and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He is sometimes referred to as 'the London Bach' or 'the English Bach', due to his time spent living in the British capital....
.

Roles

Role	Voice type	Premiere Cast, December 26, 1772 (Conductor: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Lucio Silla (Lucius Cornelius Sulla Lucius Cornelius Sulla Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix , or simply Sulla, was a Roman general and politician, holding the office of consul twice as well as the Roman dictator.... ), dictator of Rome	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....	Bassano Morgnoni
Celia, sister of Lucio Silla	soprano 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....	Daniella Mienci
Giunia (Junia), betrothed to Cecilio	soprano	Anna de Amicis-Buonsolazzi
Cecilio (Cecilius), Roman senator in exile	soprano castrato Castrato A castrato is a man with a singing voice equivalent to that of a soprano, mezzo-soprano, or contralto human voice produced either by castration of the singer before puberty or one who, because of an endocrinology condition, never reaches sexual maturity....	Venanzio Rauzzini
Lucio (Lucius) Cinna, friend of Cecilio	soprano	Felicità Suardi
Aufidio (Aufidius), tribune and friend of Lucio Silla	tenor	Giuseppe Onofrio
Guards, nobles, senators, people (chorus)

Synopsis

The story concerns the Roman dictator Lucio Silla (Lucius Sulla) who lusts after Giunia, the daughter of his enemy Caius Marius. Giunia, on the other hand, loves the exiled senator Cecilio.

Noted arias

"Dalla sponda tenebrosa" - Giunia in Act I
"Il desio di vendetta" - Silla in Act I
"Il tenero momento" - Cecilio in Act I
"Se lusinghiera speme" - Celia in Act I
"Vieni ov'amor t'invita" - Lucio Cinna in Act I
"Guerrier che d'un acciaro" - Aufidio in Act II
"Nel fortunato istante" - Lucio Cinna in Act II
"Parto, m'affretto" - Giunia in Act II
"Ah se a morir" - Cecilio in Act II
"Ah se il crudel periglio" - Giunia in Act II
"D'ogni pietà mi spoglio" - Silla in Act II
"Quando sugl'arsi campi" - Celia in Act II
"Quest' improvviso tremito" - Cecilio in Act II
"Se il labbro timido" - Celia in Act II
"De più superbi il core" - Lucio Cinna in Act III
"Fra i pensier" - Giunia in Act III
"Pupille amate" - Cecilio in Act III
"Strider sento la procella" - Celia in Act III

Selected recordings

1991 Hager with Augér, Donath, Mathis, Varady, Krenn, and Schreier. Salzburg Mozart Orchestra.
1991 Harnoncourt with P. Schreier, Gruberova, Bartoli, Upshaw, and Kenny. Vienna Concentus Musicus.
1985 Cambreling with Rolf-Johnson, Baasbank, Murray, Hartelius, and Arulan.

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