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Artamene

Opera by Tommaso Albinoni (libretto by B Vitturi), first produced at the Teatro di Sant' Angelo, Venice, Italy, on 26 December 1740.

It is also the title of an opera by Christoph Willibald von Gluck (libretto by B Vitturi), first produced at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, London, on 4 March 1746. This was the second of Gluck's two operas for London; he performed an aria from it before Charles Burney in 1770.



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The genre advanced a little further, eschewing poetry altogether in 17th century France with Madeleine de Scudery's Artamene and Madame de Lafayette's La Princesse de Cleves, both romantic intrigues of aristocrats.
This occurs in the earliest European historical novels, for example in de Scudery's Artamene, or the Grand Cyrus, in Lohenstein's Arminius and Tusnelda and in the historical novels of La Calprenade.
 
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