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.