Francesco Cavalli
Italian composer
Francesco Cavalli (born Pietro Francesco Caletti-Bruni; 14 February 1602 – 14 January 1676) was a Venetian composer, organist and singer of the early Baroque period. He succeeded his teacher Claudio Monteverdi as the dominant and leading opera composer of the mid 17th-century. A central figure of Venetian musical life, Cavalli wrote more than thirty operas, almost all of which premiered in the city's theaters. His best known works include Ormindo (1644), Giasone (1649) and La Calisto (1651).
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Works
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- La Calisto 1651
- Artemisia
- Ciro
- Coriolano
- Didone
- Doriclea
- Egisto
- Elena
- Eliogabalo
- Ercole amante
- Erismena
- Eritrea
- Giasone
- Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne
- Hipermestra
- L'Ercole
- L'Ipermestra
- L'Orione
- La Doriclea
- La virtù de' strali d'Amore
- Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo
- Magnificat
- Missa pro defunctis per octo vocibus
- Musiche Sacre
- Mutio Scevola
- Orimonte
- Oristeo
- Ormindo
- Pompeo Magno
- Rosinda
- Scipione affricano
- Serse
- Statira principessa di Persia
- Veremonda
- Xerse
Box sets & recent recordings
- Cavalli: La Calisto — Francesco Cavalli, Sébastien Daucé, Ensemble Correspondances, Lauranne Oliva, Alex Rosen, Giuseppina Bridelli, Paul-Antoine Benos-Djian, Anna Bonitatibus, Zachary Wilder (2026) box set · 101 tracks Spotify
- Cavalli: La Calisto — Francesco Cavalli, Maria Bayo, Marcello Lippi, Concerto Vocale, René Jacobs (1995) box set · 52 tracks Spotify
- Cavalli: L'Egisto — Francesco Cavalli, Le Poème Harmonique, Sophie Junker, Zachary Wilder, Ambroisine Bré, Vincent Dumestre, Marc Mauillon (2021) box set · 46 tracks Spotify
Box sets & recent releases via Spotify — surfaced automatically, not editorial picks.