APGRD id
                      1905
                Start date
                      11th November 1772
                Production Media
          - Choreographic work (dance, ballet, mime, dumbshow, performance art etc.)
 - Opera, Musical, and related genres
 
Languages
          Italian
                          Associated ancient works
          
      APGRD Notes
                      Libretto: Marco Coltellini, 'Antigona. Tragedia per musica di Marco Coltellini, poeta al servizio do S.M.I. Da rappresentarsi nell'Imperial Teatro di St. Pietroburgo il novembre dell'anno 1772' (St Petersburg: Stamperia dell'Accademia delle Scienze/Academy of Sciences, 1772; reprinted Florence: Gaetano Cambiagi, 1773). Coltellini and Traetta's Antigona followed the operatic reform proposed in the treatise 'Saggio sopra l'opera in musica' by Francesco Algarotti (see APGRD ID 9838). The opera includes pantomime and dance. Further settings of Coltellini's libretto: Dmitry Stepanovich Bortnyansky, Venice 1776 (as Creonte; Sartori ID 6888); Vincenzo Campobasso d’Alessandro, Milan 1789 (Sartori ID 2096); Peter Winter, Naples 1791 (Sartori ID 2097). Chorus: Russian musicians from the Imperial Chapel
                URI
                      
          https://apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/1905
          
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