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Armida| Opera by Haydn (libretto by J Durandi), first produced at Eszterháza, Hungary, on 26 February 1784. The plot describes how the sorceress Armida attempts to seduce the crusader knight Rinaldo. |
| It is also the title of an opera by Rossini (libretto by G Schmidt, after Torquato Tasso), first produced at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, Italy, on 11 November 1817. A further opera on the same theme was composed by Dvořák (libretto by J Vrchlický, based on his Czech translation of Tasso), first produced at the Czech Theatre, Prague (now in the Czech Republic), on 25 March 1904. |
| There are also settings by Tommaso Traetta (Vienna, 1761), Pasquale Anfossi (Turin, 1770), Antonio Salieri (Vienna, 1771), and Antonio Sacchini (Milan, 1772). |
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Alessandri, Felice
Anfossi, Pasquale
Armida abbandonata
Astaritta, Gennaro
Deutekom, Cristina
Ferrari, Benedetto
Fleming, Renée
Ford, Bruce
Gasdia, Cecilia
Gerusalemme liberata/Jerusalem Delivered
| Maddalena, James
Miricioiu, Nelly
Predieri, Luc' Antonio
Quinault, Philippe
Rinaldo
Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio
Scacchi, Marco
Tcherepnin, Nikolai
Vaness, Carol
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| Anthony had entered with extreme precipitation the enchanted gardens of Armida saying to himself "At last In twenty horses for saddle and draught, which I have particularly at my chateau of Pierrefonds, and which are called - Bayard, Roland, Charlemagne, Pepin, Dunois, La Hire, Ogier, Samson, Milo, Nimrod, Urganda, Armida, Flastrade, Dalilah, Rebecca, Yolande, Finette, Grisette, Lisette, and Musette. But there was no getting at the place of sojourn of the future abbe; the defiles of the chamber of Aramis were as well guarded as the gardens of Armida. |