Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

She created the leading female role in Elisabetta, regina d ' Inghilterra ( 1815 ), Otello ( 1816 ), Armida ( 1817 ), Mosè in Egitto ( 1818 ), Maometto II ( 1820 ), and five other Rossini operas up to and including his final contribution to the genre, Semiramide, which was also written with Colbran in the major role.

These were Elisabetta, regina d ' Inghilterra ( 1815 ), La gazzetta, Otello, ossia il Moro di Venezia ( 1816 ), Armida ( 1817 ), Mosè in Egitto, Ricciardo e Zoraide ( 1818 ), Ermione, Bianca e Falliero, Eduardo e Cristina, La donna del lago ( 1819 ), Maometto II ( 1820 ), and Zelmira ( 1822 ).

Rossini, for instance, had recourse to a baritenor as a lover in Elisabetta, regina d ' Inghilterra, at a time when his company included two major singers of that type, and also for Torvaldo e Dorliska and Armida, where, beside the amatory protagonist, Rinaldo, created by the very prince of Rossini baritenors, Andrea Nozzari, there appear additionally five or six baritonal tenors in secondary roles.

Armida was soon followed by Salieri's first truly popular success ; a commedia per musica in the style of Carlo Goldoni La fiera di Venezia ( The Fair of Venice ).

* Amori di Rinaldo con Armida by Teofilo Orgiani ( Brescia, 1697 ) music lost

* Il trionfo di Armida by Tomaso Albinoni ( Venice, 1726 )

* L ' abbandono di Armida by Antonio Pollarolo ( Venice, 1729 )

She also scored triumphant successes in Italy in the great bel canto roles of that era's composers, including Rossini, specifically Armida ; in Bellini's Norma and I puritani ; and in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.

* Armida in Damasco by Giacomo Rampini ( Venice, 1711 )

The libretto to Armida was by Marco Coltellini the house poet for the imperial theaters.

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

His opera ' Rinaldo and Armida ' has recently been published in the Recent Researches of the Music of the Baroque Era series ( A-R Editions ), edited by Steven Plank.

* Armida abbandonata ( Naples, 1770 ) – libretto by Francesco Saverio de ' Rogati

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Casa de Cultura Jesús Reyes Heroles was inhabited by María Concepción Armida, who is being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church.

* Rinaldo in Armida by Josef Mysliveček ( Milan, 1780 )

* Rinaldo in Armida abbandonata by Niccolò Jommelli ( Naples, 1780 )

Rinaldo and Armida, by Francois Boucher, 1734 ; this painting gained Boucher entrance to the Academie ( Louvre Museum )

He contributed to the society's exhibitions upwards of three hundred portraits and other works, among them being " The Enchantress Armida ", exhibited in 1831 ; " Haidee aroused from her Trance by the sound of Music ", 1834 ; " Eros ", 1836 ; " Italian Boys playing at the National Game of Mora " and the " Prisoner of Chillon ", 1837 ; " The Scene in St. Peter's, Rome, from Byron's Deformed Transformed ", 1839 ; " The Convent of St. Isidore: the Monks giving away provisions ", 1841 ; and a " Scene in a Spanish Posada in Andalusia ", 1843.

Rinaldo and Armida, by François Boucher.

The witch Armida ( modeled on Circe in Homer and the witch Alcina in Ariosto's epic ) enters the Christian camp asking for their aid ; her seductions divide the knights against each other and a group leaves with her, only to be transformed into animals by her magic.

Two Christian knights seek out the hidden fortress, brave the dangers that guard it and, by giving Rinaldo a mirror of diamond, force him to see himself in his effeminated and amorous state and to return to the war, leaving Armida heartbroken.

* Armida by Benedetto Ferrari ( Venice, 1639 ) music lost

* Armida by Marco Marazzoli ( Ferrara, 1641 )

* Armida abbandonata by Giovanni Maria Ruggieri ( Venice, 1707 )

* Armida al campo by Giuseppe Boniventi ( Venice, 1708 )

* Armida abbandonata by Giuseppe Maria Buini ( Bologna, 1716 )

* Armida al campo d ' Egitto by Antonio Vivaldi ( Venice, 1718 )

* Armida delusa by Giuseppe Maria Buini ( Venice, 1720 )

* Das eroberte Jerusalem, oder Armida und Rinaldo by Georg Caspar Schurmann ( Brunswick, 1722 )

Of his late works for the stage only two works gained wide popular esteem during his life, Palmira, regina di Persia ( Palmira, Queen of Persia ) 1795 and Cesare in Farmacusa ( Caesar on Pharmacusa ), both drawing on the heroic and exotic success established with Axur.

Musicologists believe that, true to form, the music for Il Barbiere di Siviglia was composed in just under three weeks, although some of the themes in the famous overture were actually borrowed from two earlier Rossini operas, Aureliano in Palmira and Elisabetta, regina d ' Inghilterra.

* Maria Stuarda regina di Scozia ( 29 May 1821, Teatro Comunale, Bologna )

* Caritea, regina di Spagna ( Donna Caritea ), ossia La morte di Don Alfonso re di Portogallo ( 21 February 1826 Teatro La Fenice, Venice )

* Artemisia regina di Caria ( summer 1797 Naples SC )

Pacini's successes during this time period include La fidanzata corsa ( Naples, 1842 ), Maria, regina d ' Inghilterra ( Palermo, 1843 ), Medea ( Palermo, 1843 with several later revisions, the last of which was in Naples in 1853 ), Lorenzino de ' Medici ( Venice, 1845 ), Bondelmonte ( Florence, 1845 ), Stella di Napoli ( Naples, 1845 ) and La regina di Cipro ( Turin, 1846 ).

* Rognoni, L., " Presenza e azione di Ælfgifu di Northampton, regina madre e reggente nell ' Impero del Nord di Canuto il Grande ( 1013 – 1040 )" ( in Italian )

# Nitocri, regina di egitto

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Two of the films, Maciste contro i cacciatori di teste ( translated as Colossus and the Head Hunters ) and Maciste e la regina di Samar ( as Hercules against the Moon Men ) appeared on the comedy television program Mystery Science Theater 3000 in the 1990s.

* Hercules Unchained ( Ercole e la regina di Lidia / Hercules and the Queen of Lydia, 1959 ) starring Steve Reeves

* Hercules Unchained ( 1959 ) ( Ercole e la regina di Lidia / Hercules and the Queen of Lydia ) released in USA 1960

His last screen role was as the giant Antaeus alongside Steve Reeves in Hercules Unchained ( USA Title, filmed in Italy, 1959, original title Ercole e la regina di Lidia ).

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