Dafne in lauro (Daphne as a laurel tree) is a chamber opera, a componimento per camera, composed by Johann Joseph Fux to a libretto by Pietro Pariati and performed for the imperial court before dinner on 1 October 1714 in the Favorita garden, Vienna, for the birthday of Emperor Charles VI.Harry White, Johann Joseph Fux and the Music of the Austro-Italian Baroque, 2017. "This was Dafne in Lauro, which was first performed in the Favorita garden before dinner on 1 October, 1714." The two main roles, Apollo and Dafne, with four arias each, were sung by Orsini and Maria Conti-Landini; the soprano part, Diana, was ... the sixteen-year-old soprano castrato Giovanni Vincenzi played Amore – often sung by boys – and the tenor Garghetti sang the role of Mercurio. The opera is based on the myth of Apollo and Daphne, where Daphne pleads to Diana to be saved from Apollo's pursuit of her and is turned into a laurel tree.
Roles +RoleVoicePremiere CastApolloCastratoGaetano Orsini (1667–1750)DafneSopranoMaria Conti-LandiniDianaSopranoRegina SchoonjansAmoreCastratoGiovanni VincenziMercurioTenorSilvio Garghetti
Recordings 1990: Clemencic Consort & La Capella Vocal Ensemble, 2CD Nuova Era 2021: Alfredo Bernardini; Zefiro, Arcana.
See also
Dafne: Jacopo Peri La Dafne: Marco da Gagliano Dafne (Opitz–Schütz) Martin Opitz and Heinrich Schütz
References
External links Library of Congress (Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1714).