Armida ( by Haydn)
- Mary Hunter
Extract
Dramma eroico in three acts by Joseph Haydn to a libretto by Nunziato Porta , after Torquato Tasso ’s epic poem Gerusalemme liberata; Eszterháza, 26 February 1784.
The original cast featured Matilde Bologna (Armida), Prospero Braghetti (Rinaldo), Antonio Specioli (Ubaldo), Paolo Mandini (Idreno), Costanza Valdesturla (Zelmira) and Leopold Dichtler (Clotarco). ...