Statira principessa di Persia
Statira principessa di Persia is an opera - more specifically, a dramma per musica - in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli, set to a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello. The opera was first performed in Venice at the Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo, on 18 January 1656.Roles
Synopsis
In the epistle dedicatory to the original libretto, Busenello explains the plot as follows:
