Volume 17 (2011) No. 1

Beth L. Glixon

Giulia Masotti, Venice, and the Rise of the Prima Donna

Table 2: Giulia Masotti’s Operatic Appearances in Venice, 1662/63–1672/73

Season

Theater

Librettist

Composer

Title

Role

Comments

1662/63

S. Luca

Apolloni

Cesti

La Dori

Dori

1663/64

SS. Giovanni e Paolo (SSGP)

Aureli

Volpe

Rosilena

Rosilena

1663/64

SSGP

Minato

Cavalli

Scipione affricano

Ericlea

originally composed for 1662/63?

1666/67

SSGP

Faustini/unknown reviser

Ziani

Alciade

Idiotea

1666/67

SSGP

Apolloni

Cesti

La Dori overo lo schiavo reggio

Dori

1668/69

S. Luca

Apolloni

Cesti

L’Argia

Argia

1670/71

SSGP

Moniglia/Noris

Ziani

La Semiramide

[Iside][a]

1670/71

SSGP

Apolloni

Cesti

La Dori

Dori

1670/71

SSGP

Beregan

Ziani

L’Heraclio

[Theodosia]

1671/72

SSGP

[not by Gisberti, to whom it is often credited]

Pagliardi

Caligola delirante

Cesonia or Teosena

composer active in Tuscany

1671/72

SSGP

Noris

Ziani

Attila

[Irene]

1672/73

SSGP

Noris

Boretti

Domitiano

[Emilia]

Roman composer

[a] Roles in brackets were ascertained by comparing the size of the two largest female roles and assigning the larger role to Masotti.