''L'honestà negli amori'' is a

dramma per musica Dramma per musica ( Italian, literally: ''drama for music'', plural: ''drammi per musica'') is a libretto. The term was used by dramatists in Italy and elsewhere between the mid-17th and mid-19th centuries. In modern times the same meaning of ''dra ...

in 3 acts by composer Alessandro Scarlatti. Written in 1679-1680 when Scarlatti was 19 years old, it was his second

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libr ...

. The opera uses an Italian language libretto that was written by either D F Bernini or Domenico Filippo Contini. The work premiered at the Teatro di Palazzo Bernini in Rome on 3 February 1680. The opera was performed again in 1682 in

Acquaviva delle Fonti Acquaviva delle Fonti ( nap, label= Barese, Iacquavìve ; known as just Acquaviva until 1863) is an town and of 20,446 inhabitants, in the Metropolitan City of Bari, in Apulia, Italy. Acquaviva is famous for its characteristic red onions, which h ...

at the Palazzo De Mari with ''Acquaviva laureata'' a serenata composed by Giovanni Cesare Netti.Giovanni Tribuzio, ''«Scrinium musicalis puteanensis»: catalogo e analisi della produzione musicale di Giovanni Cesare Netti (1646-1686)'', in G. Ciliberti, ''La musica ricercata. Studi d'una nuova generazione di musicologi pugliesi'', Bari, Florestano Edizioni, 2016. The opera has since been almost entirely forgotten, except as the source of the aria ‘Già il sola dal Gange’. The opera's aria 'Già il sole dal Gange', as recorded by

Cecilia Bartoli Cecilia Bartoli, Cavaliere OMRI (; born 4 June 1966) is an Italian coloratura mezzo-soprano opera singer and recitalist. She is best known for her interpretations of the music of Bellini, Handel, Mozart, Rossini and Vivaldi, as well as for her ...

, Luciano Pavarotti and others, has achieved some popularity.

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