Ezio is an opera libretto by Pietro Metastasio, first officially set to music by Pietro Auletta and premièred in the Teatro delle Dame, Rome, on December 26, 1728; an unauthorized setting by Nicola Porpora had already been premièred a month earlier (November 20) in Venice.Irving Godt, Marianna Martines: a woman composer in the Vienna of Mozart and Haydn John A. Rice – 2010, p. 61 "Typical of the collection is 'Pensa a serbarmi, o cara', Marianna's setting of an aria text from Metastasio's Ezio, a libretto first heard in Venice in 1728 with music by Porpora and in Rome the following year with music by Pietro Auletta"
Other notable settings include: Ezio (Handel), King's Theatre, London 1732 Ezio (Mysliveček, 1775), Naples Ezio (Mysliveček, 1777), Munich – completely new music Ezio (Gluck), Prague 1750, revised Vienna 1763 Ezio (1730), Johann Adolph Hasse, Naples, revised Dresden 1755 Ezio (1750), Davide Perez, Teatro Regio Ducale, Milan Ezio (1757), Tommaso Traetta, Teatro delle Dame, Rome Ezio (Latilla), Naples 1758
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