''Ezio'' is an

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Pietro Metastasio Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (), was an Italian poet and Libretto, librettist, considered the most important writer of ''opera seria'' libretti. Early ...

, 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 Nicola (or Niccolò) Antonio Giacinto Porpora (17 August 16863 March 1768) was an Italian composer and teacher of singing of the Baroque era, whose most famous singing students were the castrati Farinelli and Caffarelli. Other students include ...

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 Johann Adolph Hasse (baptised 25 March 1699 – 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a co ...

, Naples, revised Dresden 1755 *''Ezio'' (1750), Davide Perez,

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, Milan *''Ezio'' (1757), Tommaso Traetta, Teatro delle Dame, Rome * ''Ezio'' (Latilla), Naples 1758

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{{Authority control Libretti by Metastasio 1728 compositions Cultural depictions of Flavius Aetius