The marriage was deeply unpopular with the king's subjects and when a daughter, Costanza, was born, the king had to pretend to have her killed while secretly sending her to be brought up by Prince Corrado of Athens. Years before the action begins, Gualtiero, King of Thessaly, had married a poor shepherdess, Griselda. Roberto, an Athenian Prince, in love with CostanzaĬorrado, Roberto's brother, friend of Gualtiero Roles RoleĬostanza, their daughter, unknown to Griselda, in love with Roberto This was the first ever performance of any Vivaldi opera in Ireland. On the 12 October 2019, Irish National Opera staged a production of the work in Galway's Town Hall Theatre. These are 'Agitata da due venti' from act 2 and 'Dopo un'orrida procella' from act 3. Two arias from the opera have become popular concert pieces with singers such as Cecilia Bartoli and Simone Kermes. Pinchgut Opera (Sydney) staged four performances November–December 2011 in the City Recital Hall and in Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theatre in June 2012 in concert form with Francesconi, Franco, Nardotto, Bitar, Christensson and Faria conducted by Marco Pace.

Today, Griselda is rarely performed, but it featured as one of the 2011 festival season presentations of The Santa Fe Opera. The opera was given its UK theatrical premiere on 23 July 1983 as part of the Buxton Festival, while in the US, it was not presented until 2000. The opera's first modern performance was in concert on in the English Bach Festival with John Eliot Gardiner as conductor. Michael Talbot notes that 'the particular fame of this opera arises from the fact that it involved a collaboration with Goldoni,' although one which was initially fraught with problems, but he goes on to note that the two men eventually worked out an amicable compromise in the revision of an old libretto to fit the vocal limitations of the first Griselda, Anna Girò.

The opera was first performed in Venice at the Teatro San Samuele on. The celebrated Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni was hired to adapt the libretto for Vivaldi. The opera uses a revised version of the 1701 Italian libretto by Apostolo Zeno that was based on Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron ( X, 10, 'The Patient Griselda'). Griselda ( Italian pronunciation: ) is a dramma per musica in three acts that was composed by Antonio Vivaldi.

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