La fida ninfa

Opera by Antonio Vivaldi

La fida ninfa
Opera by Antonio Vivaldi
Portrait of Vivaldi, 1725
Librettist	Scipione Maffei
Language	Italian
Premiere	6 January 1732 (1732-01-06) Teatro Filarmonico, Verona

La fida ninfa (The Faithful Nymph, RV 714) is an opera by Antonio Vivaldi to a libretto by Scipione Maffei. The opera was first performed for the opening of the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona on 6 January 1732.^[1]^[2] Among the arias is "Alma oppressa de sorte crudele" (Soul oppressed by cruel fate).

Recording

La fida ninfa – Sandrine Piau, Verónica Cangemi [es], Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Lorenzo Regazzo, Philippe Jaroussky, Sara Mingardo, Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi; Naïve Records, 3CDs; recorded Cathédrale Notre-Dame-du-Liban de Paris April/May 2008

See also

List of operas by Antonio Vivaldi

References

^ Karl Heller. Antonio Vivaldi: The Red Priest of Venice (1997), p. 108: "... and La fida ninfa to initiate the Teatro Filarmonico on 6 January 1732."
^ Michael Talbot. The Vivaldi Compendium (2011), p. xxiii: "In January 1732 La fida ninfa, an exceptionally prestigious commission, inaugurated ..."

Further reading

Il teatro di Scipione Maffei (La Merope, Le cerimonie, Il raguet, e La fida ninfa). Edited by Teresa Copelli, Luigi Battei, Parma, 1905. (in Italian)

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Operas

Ottone in villa (1713)
Orlando furioso (RV 819) (1714)
Orlando finto pazzo (1714)
Nerone fatto Cesare (1715)
La costanza trionfante degl'amori e de gl'odii (1716)
Arsilda, regina di Ponto (1716)
L'incoronazione di Dario (1717)
Tieteberga (1717)
Armida al campo d'Egitto (1718)
Scanderbeg (1718)
Teuzzone (1718)
Tito Manlio (1719)
La verità in cimento (1720)
La Silvia (1721)
Ercole su'l Termodonte (1723)
Giustino (1724)
Dorilla in Tempe (1726)
Farnace (1727)
Orlando furioso (RV 728) (1727)
Atenaide (1728)
Argippo (1730)
Alvilda regina de' Goti (1731)
Semiramide (1732)
La fida ninfa (1732)
Motezuma (1733)
L'Olimpiade (1734)
Bajazet (1735)
Griselda (1735)
L'oracolo in Messenia (1737)

Sacred music

Kyrie
Gloria
Nisi Dominus
Credo
Magnificat
Stabat Mater
Dixit Dominus
Nulla in mundo pax sincera
Introduzioni
Juditha triumphans

Works with Op.

Twelve Trio Sonatas, Op. 1 (1705)
Twelve Trio Sonatas, Op. 2 (1709)
L'estro armonico, Op. 3 (1711)
La stravaganza, Op. 4 (1714)
Six Violin Sonatas, Op. 5 (1716)
Six Violin Concertos, Op. 6 (1716–1721)
Twelve Concertos, Op. 7 (1716–1717)
Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, Op. 8
- 1723, includes Le quattro stagioni
Mandolin Concerto, RV 425 (1725)
La cetra, Op. 9 (1727)
Concerto alla rustica for string orchestra (c. 1725–1730)
Six Flute Concertos, Op. 10 (1728)
Six Concertos, Op. 11 (1729)
Six Violin Concertos, Op. 12 (1729)
Grosso mogul, RV 208 (early violin concerto)
Flute Concerto Il gran mogol, RV 431a (c. 1730)
Lute Concerto, RV 93 (1730s)
Concerto in C major, RV 559

Other

Cello sonatas
Concerto for Two Cellos, RV 531
Concerto for Two Trumpets

Namesakes

Vivaldi (crater)
Vivaldi Glacier

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