L'honestà negli amori

L'honestà negli amori is a dramma per musica in 3 acts by composer Alessandro Scarlatti. Written in 1679-1680 when Scarlatti was 19 years old, it was his second opera. The opera uses an Italian language libretto that was written by either D F Bernini or Domenico Filippo Contini. The work premiered at the Teatro di Palazzo Bernini in Rome on 3 February 1680.[1] The opera was performed again in 1682 in Acquaviva delle Fonti at the Palazzo De Mari with Acquaviva laureata a serenata composed by Giovanni Cesare Netti.[2]

L'honestà negli amori
Opera by Alessandro Scarlatti
The composer as a young man
Librettist	D F Bernini or Domenico Filippo Contini
Language	Italian
Premiere	3 February 1680 Teatro di Palazzo Bernini, Rome

The opera's aria 'Già il sole dal Gange', as recorded by Cecilia Bartoli, Luciano Pavarotti and others, has achieved some popularity.

References

1. Casaglia, Gherardo (2005)."L'honestà negli amori, 3 February 1680". L'Almanacco di Gherardo Casaglia (in Italian).
2. Giovanni Tribuzio, «Scrinium musicalis puteanensis»: catalogo e analisi della produzione musicale di Giovanni Cesare Netti (1646-1686), in G. Ciliberti, La musica ricercata. Studi d'una nuova generazione di musicologi pugliesi, Bari, Florestano Edizioni, 2016.