Dafne in lauro

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.^[1] 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.^[2][3]

Roles

Role	Voice	Premiere Cast
Apollo	Castrato	Gaetano Orsini (1667–1750)
Dafne	Soprano	Maria Conti-Landini
Diana	Soprano	Regina Schoonjans
Amore	Castrato	Giovanni Vincenzi
Mercurio	Tenor	Silvio 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