Ciro (opera)
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Ciro (Cyrus) is a 1653 Italian opera in a prologue and three acts with music by Francesco Provenzale to a libretto by Giulio Cesare Sorrentino, first performed that year at the Teatro San Bartolomeo in Naples, in a production by Giovan Battista Balbi (fl 1636–1657).[1][2][3] It was altered by an unkown poet,[4] possibly Aurelio Aureli, and revived in January 1654 in a highly modified version, with major revisions and additions of music by composer Francesco Cavalli, at the Teatro San Giovanni e San Paolo in Venice.[2][5] Balbi was also involved in the Venice production.[2][3] The opera was revived again in 1665 in Venice with additional music by Andrea Mattioli.[1][5] Manuscript scores of the 1654 and 1665 versions survive.[5]