Orlando furioso, RV 819
Orlando furioso RV 819 (Italian pronunciation: [orˈlando fuˈrjoːzo, -so], Teatro San Angelo, Venice 1714) is a three-act opera surviving in manuscript in Antonio Vivaldi's personal library, only partly related to his better known Orlando furioso (RV 728) of 1727. It is a recomposition of an Orlando furioso written by Giovanni Alberto Ristori which had been very successfully staged by Vivaldi and his father's impresa in 1713, and whose music survives in a few fragments retained in the score of RV 819. Therefore, Vivaldi's first cataloguer Peter Ryom did not assign the opera a RV number, but catalogued it as RV Anh. 84. The libretto was by Grazio Braccioli.
Movements
Atto I
- Scena V. Aria "Nel profondo, cieco mondo" (Orlando)
- Scena V. Recitativo "Amorose mie brame" (Orlando)
Atto II
- Scena XV. "Ah sleale, ah spergiura" (Orlando)
- Scena XV. "Io ti getto elmo, ed usbergo" (Orlando)
- "Ah, fuggi rapido"
- Atto III