Il Pompeo

Il Pompeo is a dramma per musica in three acts by composer Alessandro Scarlatti. Written in 1682 when Scarlatti was 22 years old, it was his fourth opera and first dramatic work on a serious and grand subject. The opera uses an Italian language libretto by Nicolò Minato which had previously been used by Francesco Cavalli for his 1666 opera Pompeo Magno. The work premiered at the Teatro di Palazzo Colonna in Rome on 25 January 1683.^[1]

Il Pompeo
Opera by Alessandro Scarlatti
The composer as a young man
Librettist	Nicolò Minato
Language	Italian
Premiere	25 January 1683 (1683-01-25) Teatro di Palazzo Colonna, Rome

Roles

Role[2]	Voice type[2]	Premiere cast 25 January 1683
Pompeo	tenor
Giulio Cesare	bass
Giulia, daughter of Giulio Cesare	contralto castrato travesti
Scipione Servilio, loved by Giulia	soprano castrato
Mitridate	tenor
Issicratea, Mitridate's wife	soprano castrato travesti
Sesto, son of Pompeo	alto castrato
Claudio, son of Giulio Cesare	soprano castrato
Harpalia, Issicratea's slave	tenor travesti
Farnace, son of Mitridate	soprano castrato