Adriano Morselli was a

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librettist active between 1679 and 1691. His libretti have been set to music by composers like

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, Alessandro Scarlatti, Giacomo Antonio Perti,

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, Carlo Francesco Pollarolo and Domenico Gabrielli. His most popular works were '' L'incoronazione di Dario'' from 1684 and ''Tullo Ostilio'' from 1685, and the unfinished ''La pace fra Seleuco e Tolomeo'' from 1691.

Published and performed works

*1679: ''Candaule re di Lidia'' (reprinted 1680); performed in 1679 with music by Pietro Andrea Ziani, and in 1706 with music by Domenico Natale Sarro *1682: ''Temistocle in bando'', with music by Antonio Giannettini (reprinted 1698) *1683: ''Falaride, tiranno d'Agrigento'', music by Giovanni Battista Bassani *1683: ''Apio Claudio''; performed in 1693 with music by Giovanni Marco Martini *1683: ''L'innocenza risorta, ovvero L'etio'' (reprinted 1686, 1693); performed with music by Pietro Andrea Ziani *1684: '' L'incoronazione di Dario'': 1684 performance with music by Domenico Freschi, 1686 performance with

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by Giacomo Antonio Perti, 1705 performance with music by Giuseppe Antonio Vincenzo Aldrovandini, and 1717 performance in Venice with music by

*1685: ''Tullo Ostilio'' (reprinted 1694, 1702: reprinted 1695 as ''Alba soggiogata da Romani''; reprinted in Vienna in 1740 as ''I tre difensori della patria''); music by

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in 1685, by Giovanni Bononcini in 1694, by Giuseppe Vignola in 1707, and by Giovanni Battista Pescetti in 1729 *1686: ''La Teodora Augusta'' (reprinted 1687, 1693): performed with music by Alessandro Scarlatti in 1692 and by Giuseppe Vignola in 1709 *1686: ''Il Mauritio'' (reprinted 1687, 1692; reprinted 1694 as ''Tiberio in Bisanzio''): music by Domenico Gabrielli (1686) and Francesco Maria Mannucci (1707) *1688: ''Il Gordiano'' (reprinted 1700): music by Domenico Gabrielli *1688: ''Carlo il grande'', with music by Domenico Gabrielli *1689: ''Augurio di felice prole'' *1689: ''Amulio, e Numitore'': performed with music by

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*1690: ''Il Pirro e Demetrio'', with music by

in 1690 and by Alessandro Scarlatti in 1694; translated in English as '' Pyrrhus and Demetrius'' by Owen Swiny (1709, reprinted 1716) *1690: '' L'incoronazione di Serse'', with music by Giuseppe Felice Tosi *1691: ''La pace fra Seleuco e Tolomeo'', music by

with additional texts by Aurelio Aureli; another 1691 performance with music by Carlo Francesco Pollarolo and additional text by Pierre Corneille; 1720 performance with music by

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, additional texts by Andrea Trabucco *1692: ''L'Ibraim sultano'', music by Carlo Francesco Pollarolo, additional text by

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Morselli, Adriano Year of birth unknown Year of death unknown Italian opera librettists