List of operas by Vivaldi
General
Antonio Vivaldi himself claimed in a letter to have written 94 operas. 49 have so far been identified as his works. In the autograph scores 22 works have survived, of which 16 are fully in Vivaldi's own handwriting. Most of them are today. Turinaufbewahrt in the National Library, where a total of about 450 music manuscripts by Vivaldi works are almost all musical genres
Stylistically it is Vivaldi's operas to baroque opera Italian-style number, ie with largely clear separation of recitative and da capo aria. Contemporaries saw in Vivaldi's works at the beginning of a Lombard- Venetian style, which approached to the Neapolitan style of Johann Adolf Hasse later. The works differ significantly from the approximately contemporaneous French opera (Jean -Philippe Rameau ) and - more subtly - even the German type (Georg Friedrich Händel, Georg Philipp Telemann ). The recitatives, which Vivaldi paid special attention to differ in secco Reziatativ ( accompanied only by harpsichord and bass) and accompanied recitative ( with strings ), the accompagnato recitatives occasionally also small scenes wide can. Almost always there are also duets and choruses, trios or quartets rare.
The instrumentation ranges in Vivaldi's operas by simple string ensemble with basso continuo to extensive with brass (flutes, oboes, bassoons, trumpets, horns, trombones ) and timpani enriched ensembles. The continuo is today based on historical models usually richly decorated with cello, harpsichord, lute, baroque guitar, theorbo, harp, etc., where appropriate, with violone (double bass) or bassoon. In Opera Vivaldi there is also a dulcimer. Often the solo violin is used ( Vivaldi himself was a violinist and directed the performances of his instrument. )
The substances, which set to music Vivaldi, almost all originating from ancient history and mythology. However, they were based on their own time by the librettist in the rule. Geographically, the spectrum of topics of America ( Motezuma ) about the Orient (La verità in cimento ) to China ( Teuzzone ). Some operas were created in collaboration with other composers as Pasticci.
Several Italian Baroque ensembles have begun in recent years, thus, va to re- edit the works that are kept in Turin and rehearse ( " Vivaldi Edition" naïve at the labels and opus 111 ) and have the opera performed in the framework of international music festivals ( eg in Beaune, France).