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[[File:Domenico Lalli portrait published 1818.jpg|thumb|upright=1.20|[[Domenico Lalli]], author of the ''Argippo'' libretto, which had previously been set as ''Il gran Mogol'' by [[Francesco Mancini (composer)|Francesco Mancini]] (1713).]]
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'''''Argippo''''' is an [[opera libretto]] by [[Domenico Lalli]], which in [[Giovanni Porta]]'s setting premiered in [[Venice]] in 1717. Claudio Nicola Stampa's reworked version of the libretto was set as ''L'Argippo'' by {{ill|Andrea Stefano Fiorè|de}}. This opera was performed in [[Milan]] in 1722.

[[Antonio Vivaldi]]'s ''Argippo'', [[Ryom-Verzeichnis|RV]]&nbsp;697, based on Stampa's version of the libretto, was staged in two different versions in 1730, first in [[Vienna]] (RV&nbsp;697-A), and later in [[Prague]] (RV&nbsp;697-B). The music of both of these versions was lost. Until a Czech Composer named Ondřej Macek rediscovered it. The Opera was then performed in 2008 for the first time since the first half of the 18th century. Vivaldi's setting of the ''Argippo'' libretto partially survives in a [[pasticcio]], RV&nbsp;Anh.&nbsp;137, which, in the 21st century, was the basis for a reconstruction of the Prague version of Vivaldi's opera.

==Libretto==
[[Domenico Lalli]]'s ''[[Il gran Mogol]]'' libretto was set by [[Francesco Mancini (composer)|Francesco Mancini]], and performed in the [[Teatro San Bartolomeo]], [[Naples]], in December 1713.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/157366587 Il gran Mogol : drama per musica / di Domenico Lalli ; da rappresentarsi nel Teatro di S. Bartolomeo nel giorno 26. di decembre 1713 ; dedicato alla grandezza impareggiabile dell'Eccellentiss. signor conte VVirrico di Daun, vicerè, e capitan generale in questo regno di Napoli, &c.] at [[Trove]] website.</ref><ref>Carlo Antonio de Rosa marchese di Villarosa (1840). [https://books.google.com/books?id=ALVVkJvmYvkC ''Memorie dei compositori di musica del regno di Napoli: raccolte dal marchese di Villarosa''.] Naples: Stamperia reale, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ALVVkJvmYvkC&pg=PA110 p.&nbsp;110].</ref> In the next two decades this libretto was set as ''Argippo'' by several composers:<ref name = "Freeman">Freeman, Daniel E. (1992). [https://books.google.com/books?id=2e1yQKqlK5wC&pg=PA166 ''The Opera Theater of Count Franz Anton Von Sporck in Prague''.] Stuyvesant, N.Y.: Pendragon Press. {{isbn|0945193173}}, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2e1yQKqlK5wC&pg=PA166 p.&nbsp;166]</ref>
* Setting by [[Giovanni Porta]], performed in 1717 in [[Venice]].<ref name = "Freeman" />{{sfn|Talbot|2011|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=lYypmdoyPqYC&pg=PR104 92]}}<ref name="PortaLOC">{{LCCN|2010665737|[[Domenico Lalli|Lalli]]'s 1717 libretto: [http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musschatz.19114 digitized version] at [[Library of Congress|LoC]]}} website</ref><ref name="Porta1717MDZ">[http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00049055-0 L'Argippo – Porta, Giovanni ; Lalli, Domenico – 1717] at [[Munich Digitization Center]] website</ref><ref name="PortaRISM">{{RISM|212008590}}</ref><ref name="PortaSLUBp1">[http://digital.slub-dresden.de/id434533297 Mus.2444-F-1] at [[Saxon State and University Library Dresden]] website</ref>
* ''L'Argippo'', a setting by {{ill|Andrea Stefano Fiorè|de}} of Claudio Nicola Stampa's reworked version of the libretto, was staged in [[Milan]] in 1722.{{sfn|Spáčilová|2013|page=9}}<ref name="FiorèToronto">Domenico Pietropaolo, Mary Ann Parker (2011). [https://books.google.com/books?id=H-HMDvZjk_UC ''The Baroque Libretto: Italian Operas and Oratorios in the Thomas Fisher Library at the University of Toronto''.] University of Toronto Press. {{isbn|9781442641631}}, pp.&nbsp;[https://books.google.com/books?id=H-HMDvZjk_UC&pg=PA186 186]–[https://books.google.com/books?id=H-HMDvZjk_UC&pg=PA187 187]</ref><ref name="FiorèOCLC">{{OCLC|80013708|224588524|977629906}}</ref><ref name="FiorèLibretto">Claudio Nicola Stampa, after [[Domenico Lalli]] (1722). [https://archive.org/details/largippodramaper00fior ''L'Argippo; drama per musica, da rappresentarsi nel Regio Ducal Teatro di Milano, in occasione di celebrarsi il giorno natalizio della cesarea cattolica Maestà di Elsabetta Cristina, imperatrice, regina delle Spagne, &c., &c''.] Milan: Giuseppe Richino Malatesta. (also {{LCCN|2010665645|[http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/musschatz.19022 digitized version] at [[Library of Congress|LoC]]}} website)</ref>
* [[Antonio Vivaldi]] based his ''Argippo'', RV&nbsp;697-A, which premiered in [[Vienna]] in 1730, on Stampa's adaptation of Lalli's libretto (music lost).{{sfn|Talbot|2011|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=lYypmdoyPqYC&pg=PR37 25]}}
* Vivaldi used a variant of this libretto for his ''Argippo'', RV&nbsp;697-B, staged in [[Prague]] in the autumn of 1730 (music lost).<ref name = "Freeman" />{{sfn|Talbot|2011|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=lYypmdoyPqYC&pg=PR37 25]}}<ref name="freeman1995">Freeman, Daniel E. (1995). [https://books.google.com/books?id=F-nxW_BB3wIC&pg=PA117 "Antonio Vivaldi and the Sporck Theater in Prague", pp.&nbsp;117–140] in [https://books.google.com/books?id=F-nxW_BB3wIC ''Janáček and Czech Music: Proceedings of The International Conference (St.&nbsp;Louis 1988)''.] Pendragon Press. {{isbn|094519336X}}, pp.&nbsp;[https://books.google.com/books?id=F-nxW_BB3wIC&pg=PA122 122], [https://books.google.com/books?id=F-nxW_BB3wIC&pg=PA129 129].</ref>
*Vivaldi's setting of the text based on Lalli's libretto was partially preserved in a [[pasticcio]], ''Argippo'', RV&nbsp;Anh.&nbsp;137.{{sfn|Talbot|2011|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=lYypmdoyPqYC&pg=PR37 25]}}
* Another ''Argippo'' pasticcio, credited to Antonio Costantini, and based on Lalli's libretto, was performed in the 1733 carnival season in [[Brno]].{{sfn|Spáčilová|2013|page=21}}{{sfn|Spáčilová|2016|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=oyZTDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA260 260]}}<ref name="StanfordCostantini">[http://operadata.stanford.edu/catalog/10106761 ''Argippo'': Antonio Costantini] at {{url|http://operadata.stanford.edu}}</ref>

===Roles===
{| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2" | Role
! colspan="2" | Porta 1717<ref name="Porta1717MDZ" /><ref name="PortaRISM" />
! Fiorè 1722<ref name="FiorèLibretto" />
! colspan="2" | Vivaldi 2008 (rec.)<ref name="Dynamic2008libretto">[https://www.dynamic.it/prodotti/pdf/CDS626.pdf Vivaldi: ''Argippo'' – English Libretto] at [[Dynamic (record label)|Dynamic]] website.</ref><ref name="musicweb">[http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2010/Jan10/Vivaldi_Argippo_CDS626.htm Vivaldi: Argippo] at {{url|http://www.musicweb-international.com}}</ref>
|-
! [[Voice type|Voice t.]]
! Cast
! Cast
! [[Voice type|Voice t.]]
! Cast
|-
| Argippo, ''king''
| [[soprano]]
| Valentino Urbani
| Giuliano Albertini
| [[Mezzo-soprano|mezzo]]
| Veronika Mráčková Fučíková
|-
| Tisifaro, ''[[Mughal emperors|mogol]]''
| [[tenor]]
| Gaetano Borghi
| Gio. Battista Pinacci
| [[baritone]]
| Zdeněk Kapl
|-
| Zanaida, ''daughter of Tisifaro''
| [[alto]]
| [[Diana Vico]]
| Vittoria Tesi
| [[Mezzo-soprano|mezzo]]
| Pavla Štěpničková 
|-
| Osira, ''wife of Argippo''
| [[soprano]]
| Antonia Gavazzi
| Anna Guglielmina
| [[soprano]]
| Jana Bínová-Koucká
|-
| Silvero, ''secretly married to Zanaida''
| [[alto]]
| Gio. Battista Minelli
| Carlo Scalzi
| [[soprano]]
| Barbora Sojková
|-
| Mesio, ''in love with Osira''
| [[bass (voice type)|bass]]
| Antinoro Claudii
| Maria Antonina Tozzi
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | —
|}

===Synopsis===
The opera, in three acts, is set in an Indian royal court and centers around a young princess smitten by a dishonest suitor.<ref name="Porta1717MDZ" /><ref name="FiorèLibretto" /><ref name="Dynamic2008libretto" /><ref>[https://operabaroque.fr/VIVALDI_ARGIPPO.htm Argippo] at {{url|https://operabaroque.fr}}</ref>

==1717–1722==
Porta's setting of Lalli's ''Argippo'' libretto was first performed in Venice in 1717.<ref name = "Freeman" />{{sfn|Talbot|2011|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=lYypmdoyPqYC&pg=PR104 92]}} Fiorè's setting of Stampa's adaptation of the ''Argippo'' libretto was first performed in Milan in 1722.{{sfn|Spáčilová|2013|page=9}}

===Porta===
[[File:Argippo (Porta) first page of score (SLUB manuscript).png|thumb|upright=1.20|First page of the manuscript score of [[Giovanni Porta]]'s ''Argippo'' (1717).<ref name="PortaSLUBp1" />]]
Porta's ''Argippo'' was first performed on 31 October 1717 in Venice, in the [[Teatro San Cassiano]].<ref name="PortaRISM" /><ref name="PortaSLUBp1" /> Both the printed libretto (titled ''L'Argippo: Drama per musica'') and the manuscript score (titled ''Argippo'') of this performance survive.<ref name="PortaLOC" /><ref name="Porta1717MDZ" /><ref name="PortaRISM" /><ref name="PortaSLUBp1" /><ref name="PortaRISM2">{{RISM|900011235}}</ref> A four-page dedication by Lalli precedes the text of his libretto.<ref name="Porta1717MDZ" /> There is no [[sinfonia]] (overture) in the score.<ref name="PortaRISM" /> There are fifteen scenes in the first act, fourteen in the second act, and nine in the last act.<ref name="PortaRISM" /> The text in the score closely follows the original libretto.<ref name="PortaRISM" /> The printed libretto contains text variants for nine arias, but it is not known whether these alternative texts were set by Porta.<ref name="PortaRISM" />

In 1722, Porta's opera was re-staged in Venice, this time in the [[Teatro San Moisè]].{{sfn|Spáčilová|2013|page=9}}<ref name="Porta1722MDZ">[http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00049271-9 L'Argippo – Porta, Giovanni ; Lalli, Domenico – 1722] at [[Munich Digitization Center]] website</ref> Also for this production, Lalli wrote a dedication in the printed libretto.<ref name="Porta1722MDZ" />

===Fiorè===
''L'Argippo'' was staged in the [[Regio Ducal Teatro]] in Milan in honour of the 31st birthday of [[Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]], [[Holy Roman Emperor|Holy Roman Empress]], which fell on 28&nbsp;August 1722. The dedication, dated 27&nbsp;August 1722 in the extant libretto, was written by [[Giuseppe Ferdinando Brivio]] and addressed at {{ill|Girolamo di Colloredo-Waldsee|it}}, who was the then-time [[Austria]]n governor of the [[Duchy of Milan]]. Stampa added an introduction to this revised version of Lalli's libretto, which was set by Fiorè.<ref name="FiorèToronto" /><ref name="FiorèOCLC" /><ref name="FiorèLibretto" />

The libretto describes three stage settings for the fourteen scenes of the first act, while the second act (twelve scenes) and the third act (eleven scenes) each have two different stage settings. A reprint of the libretto was published in 2018.<ref name="FiorèLibretto" /><ref>{{ill|Andrea Stefano Fiorè|de}} (2018). ''L'Argippo: Drama per Musica, da Rappresentarsi Nel Regio Ducal Teatro di Milano, in Occasione di Celebrarsi IL Giorno Natalizio della Cesarea Cattolica Maestà di Elsabetta Cristina Imperatrice, Regina Delle Spagne, &C., &C''. Forgotten Books. {{isbn|9780364395523|9780364868973}}</ref>

==Vivaldi's RV 697, pasticcios and a reconstruction==
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In a letter he wrote in 1737, Vivaldi mentions he had been called to Vienna: according to [[Michael Talbot (musicologist)|Michael Talbot]], this was likely on invitation by the [[Theater am Kärntnertor]] where the first version of his ''Argippo'', RV&nbsp;697, was presented as an [[intermezzo]] in 1730.{{sfn|Talbot|2011|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=lYypmdoyPqYC&pg=PR37 25], [https://books.google.com/books?id=lYypmdoyPqYC&pg=PR196 184]}} Later that year, a somewhat more extended version of this opera was performed by a company of mostly Italian performers in [[Franz Anton von Sporck]]'s private theatre in Prague.{{sfn|Talbot|2011|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=lYypmdoyPqYC&pg=PR37 25]}}{{sfn|Spáčilová|2013|pages=12, 21}} A few years later, this Italian ensemble performed in [[Regensburg]], where a score with at least six arias from Vivaldi's ''Argippo'' was recovered.<ref name="BBC2008">Rob Cameron (3 May 2008). [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7382451.stm Vivaldi work revived 278 years on.] [[BBC News]]</ref>{{sfn|Talbot|2011|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=lYypmdoyPqYC&pg=PR37 25]}}

===1730===
Two closely related German versions of the ''Argippo'' libretto were published in 1730:{{sfn|Talbot|2011|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=lYypmdoyPqYC&pg=PR37 25]}}{{sfn|Spáčilová|2013|page=21}}
* one for a performance in the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna, translated by Heinrich Rademin;<ref>[http://gso.gbv.de/DB=2.1/PPNSET?PPN=572662165 Musicalisches Zwischen-Spiel, Genannt: Der Argippo – In Welscher Sprach vorzustellen Auf dem Von Ihro Röm. Kayserl. und Königl. Cathol. Majest. Privilegirten Theatro in Wienn, Verteutscht von Rademin] at {{url|http://gso.gbv.de}}</ref>
* a more extended one for the Sporck Theater in Prague.<ref name="freeman1995" />
Both contain an aria titled "Gelido in ogni vena", on a text extracted from [[Pietro Metastasio|Metastasio]]'s ''[[Siroe, re di Persia (Metastasio)|Siroe, re di Persia]]'' libretto, and which Vivaldi had for instance also inserted in his ''[[Farnace]]'' opera, there based on music from his ''[[L'Inverno]]'' concerto.{{sfn|Spáčilová|2013|page=9}}{{sfn|Spáčilová|2014|page=143}}<ref name="GelidoRISM">{{RISM|212006277}}</ref> The libretto variants were based on Stampa's adaptation of Lalli's text, but were transmitted without their respective settings.{{sfn|Talbot|2011|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=lYypmdoyPqYC&pg=PR37 25]}} Only the Prague libretto names Vivaldi as composer: because of the similarities between both texts Vivaldi is however considered the composer in both cases.{{sfn|Talbot|2011|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=lYypmdoyPqYC&pg=PR37 25]}}{{sfn|Spáčilová|2014|page=143}} The Vienna version, which was probably performed before the Prague version, received the RV&nbsp;697-A number, and RV&nbsp;697-B was assigned to the opera performed in the Sporck Theater.{{sfn|Talbot|2011|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=lYypmdoyPqYC&pg=PR37 25]}}

===Pasticcios===
RV&nbsp;Anh.&nbsp;137 is an ''Argippo'' pasticcio that survives in two manuscripts:
* A complete score, Mus.ms 245 of the {{ill|Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt|de}}.<ref name="RISM245">{{RISM|450002605}}</ref><ref name="Mus.ms245">[http://tudigit.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/show/Mus-Ms-245 Mus Ms 245] at {{ill|Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt|de}} website</ref>
* An extract of 19 arias of this pasticcio, the score of which is preserved at the {{ill|Fürst Thurn und Taxis Hofbibliothek und Zentralarchiv|de}} in Regensburg (D-Rtt Prota 4).<ref name="Regensburg">{{RISM|450010697}}</ref>

This pasticcio contains at least six arias by Vivaldi.{{sfn|Talbot|2011|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=lYypmdoyPqYC&pg=PR37 25]}}

Another ''Argippo'' pasticcio was performed in [[Brno]] in 1733.{{sfn|Spáčilová|2013|page=21}}{{sfn|Spáčilová|2016|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=oyZTDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA260 260]}}<ref name="StanfordCostantini" /> The libretto of this production survives without music: as a pasticcio it may have contained arias by Vivaldi.{{sfn|Spáčilová|2013|pages=15–20}}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Arias in RV&nbsp;Anh.&nbsp;137 and RV&nbsp;697 (text matches highlighted)
|-
! colspan="3" | RV&nbsp;Anh.&nbsp;137<ref name="Mus.ms245" />
! colspan="2" | RV&nbsp;697<ref>[https://www.allmusic.com/performance/argippo-mq0001376101 Antonio Vivaldi: Argippo] at [[AllMusic]] website</ref>
! rowspan="2" | Other<br />Vivaldi{{sfn|Spáčilová|2013|page=9}}
|-
! [[Scene (drama)|sc]]<ref name="RISM245" />
! Aria<ref name="Regensburg" />
! Composer
! #
! Aria
|-
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | I sc1
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Se lento ancora il fulmine
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Vivaldi<ref>{{RISM|450027083}}</ref>
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | I, 1
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Se lento ancora il fulmine
|
|-
| I sc2
| Rege son che combattuto
| [[Johann Adolph Hasse|Hasse]]<ref>{{RISM|450027084}}</ref><ref>{{RISM|190012050}}</ref>
| colspan="3" style="text-align: center;" | —
|-
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | I sc3
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Del fallire il rimorso
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Vivaldi<ref>{{RISM|450027085}}</ref>
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | I, 2
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Del fallire il rimorso
| 
|-
| I sc4
| Anche in mezzo a perigliosa
| [[Antonio Galeazzi|Galeazzi]]<ref>{{RISM|450027086}}</ref>
| I, 3
| Tuona spesso all'aer cieco
| 
|-
| I sc5
| Qual disarmata nave
| [[Giovanni Battista Pescetti|Pescetti]]<ref>{{RISM|450027087}}</ref>
| I, 4
| Vidi appena un sol baleno
| 
|-
| I sc6
| Dov'è la morte per me
| [[Giovanni Battista Pescetti|Pescetti]]<ref>{{RISM|450027088}}</ref>
| I, 5
| Non v'è perdono
|
|-
| II sc1
| Che gran pena trafigge
| [[Johann Adolph Hasse|Hasse]]<ref>{{RISM|450027089}}</ref>
| II, 1
| Del giusto mio dolore
| 
|-
| II sc2
| Non temer e dati pace
| ?<ref>{{RISM|450027090}}</ref>
| II, 2
| Chi quel Timor condanna
|
|-
| II sc3
| Bell'idolo amato
| [[Nicola Porpora|Porpora]]<ref>{{RISM|450027091}}</ref>
| colspan="3" style="text-align: center;" | —
|-
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | II sc4
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Un certo non so che
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Vivaldi<ref>{{RISM|450027092}}</ref>
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | II, 3
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Un certo non so che
| 
|-
| II sc5,6
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | —
| II, 4
| Io vorrei col sangue, e vita
| 
|-
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | II sc7
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Io son rea dell'onor mio
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Vivaldi<ref>{{RISM|450027093}}</ref>
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | II, 5
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Io son rea dell'onor mio
| 
|-
| II sc8
| A piedi miei svenato
| ?<ref>{{RISM|450027094}}</ref>
| II, 6
| Suole ancora lamentarsi
| 
|-
| II sc[9]
| Da più venti combattuta
| [[Antonio Galeazzi|Galeazzi]]<ref>{{RISM|450027095}}</ref>
| colspan="3" style="text-align: center;" | —
|-
| III sc1
| Mi sento nel core un raggio
| [[Giovanni Battista Pescetti|Pescetti]]<ref>{{RISM|450027096}}</ref>
| III, 1
| Mi sento nel core
|
|-
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | III sc2
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Vado a morir per te
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | [[Andrea Stefano Fiorè|Fiorè]]<ref>{{RISM|450027097}}</ref>
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | III, 2
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Vado a morir per te
| 
|-
| III sc3
| Vi sarà stella clemente
| [[Giovanni Battista Pescetti|Pescetti]]<ref>{{RISM|450027098}}</ref>
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | III, 3
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Gelido in ogni vena
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | [[Farnace (Vivaldi)|RV&nbsp;711]]-D/II:6<ref name="GelidoRISM" />
|-
| III sc4
| Se d'un amor tiranno
| [[Leonardo Vinci|Vinci]]<ref>{{RISM|450027099}}</ref>
| III, 4
| L'incerto tuo pensiere
|
|-
| III sc5
| Se la bella tortorella
| ?<ref>{{RISM|450027100}}</ref>
| III, 5
| Un pensiero
|
|-
| III sc6
| colspan="2" style="text-align: center;" | —
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | III, 6
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | In bosco romito
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | [[Atenaide (Vivaldi)|RV&nbsp;702]]-B/III:7<ref>{{RISM|212006265}}</ref>
|-
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | III sc7
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Che farai perdonerai
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Vivaldi<ref>{{RISM|450027101}}</ref>
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | III, 7
| style="background: #E3F6CE;" | Che farai? Perdonerai
|}

===Recovering ''Argippo'' music===
In 2008 Ondřej Macek presented his reconstruction of Vivaldi's ''Argippo'', which he had based on extant librettos, on the Vivaldi arias in the Regensburg pasticcio score—which he had recovered two years earlier—, and on other music the Venetian composer had written around 1730.<ref name="Dynamic2008libretto" /><ref name="BBC2008" /><ref>David Randall (4 May 2008). [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/vivaldis-longlost-opera-returns-to-prague-after-278-years-820860.html Vivaldi's long-lost opera returns to Prague after 278 years: After hunting the missing manuscript down in a German archive, Czech conductor revives 'Argippo'.] ''[[The Independent]]''.</ref> Macek performed this opera with the Hofmusici Baroque Ensemble, first in Prague, and later in Venice.<ref name="Dynamic2008libretto" /><ref name="BBC2008" /> A live recording of the Venice performance, which with inclusion of sinfonias derived from Vivaldi concertos lasts around two hours, was issued on CD in 2009.<ref name="Dynamic2008libretto" /><ref name="musicweb" /><ref>[https://www.allmusic.com/album/antonio-vivaldi-argippo-mw0001415904 Hofmusici Baroque Ensemble / Ondrej Macek / Barbora Sojková – Antonio Vivaldi: Argippo] at [[AllMusic]] website</ref> ''Argippo Resurrected'' is a 2009 Czech documentary about Macek's recovery, reconstruction and performance of Vivaldi's ''Argippo'' music.<ref>[https://dokweb.net/database/films/synopsis/c3ca43c7-fda5-4063-851d-3748376b99cd/argippo-resurrected Argippo Resurrected] at {{url|https://dokweb.net}}</ref>

The full version of the RV&nbsp;Anh.&nbsp;137 pasticcio was recovered in [[Darmstadt]], where it had previously been classified under an erroneous title, and misattributed to [[Ernst Christian Hesse]].<ref name="RISM245" /> A digitized facsimile of this score was made available on the website of the Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt.<ref name="Mus.ms245" />

==Further reading==
* {{cite journal |last1=Pegah |first1=Rashid-S. |date=2011 |title=Ein Argippo-Pasticcio |journal=Studi Vivaldiani |volume=11 |pages=63–76}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Strohm |first1=Reinhard |date=2008 |title=Argippo in 'Germania' |journal=Studi Vivaldiani |volume=8 |pages=111–127}}

==References==
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'''Sources'''
* {{cite journal |last1=Spáčilová |first1=Jana |date=2013 |title=Brněnská opera Argippo z roku 1733 ve světle nových výzkumů |url=https://www.opusmusicum.cz/content/brn%C4%9Bnsk%C3%A1-opera-argippo-z-roku-1733-ve-sv%C4%9Btle-nov%C3%BDch-v%C3%BDzkum%C5%AF |journal=[[opus musicum]] |language=Czech, English |location=Brno |volume=13 |issue=2 |pages=6–21 |issn=0862-8505 }}
* {{cite journal |last1=Spáčilová |first1=Jana |date=2014 |title=Unbekannte Brünner Oratorien Neapolitanischer Komponisten vor 1740 |journal=Musicologica Brunensia |language=de |location=Brno |publisher=Faculty of Arts of the [[Masaryk University]] |volume=49 |issue=1 |pages=137–161 |doi=10.5817/MB2014-1-9 |issn=1212-0391 |hdl=11222.digilib/130209 |doi-access=free }}
* {{cite book |last1=Spáčilová |first1=Jana |date=2016 |chapter=Soloists of the Opera Productions in Brno, Holešov, Kroměříž and Vyškov: Italian Opera Singers in Moravian Sources c.&nbsp;1720-1740 (Part&nbsp;I) |jstor=j.ctv1wxt49.16 |editor1-last=Nieden |editor1-first=Gesa zur |editor2-last=Over |editor2-first=Berthold |title=Musicians' Mobilities and Music Migrations in Early Modern Europe: Biographical Patterns and Cultural Exchanges |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oyZTDQAAQBAJ  |publisher={{ill|Transcript (publisher)|de|Transcript Verlag|lt=Transcript}} |pages=255–273 |doi= |isbn=9783839435045 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Talbot |first1=Michael |author-link1=Michael Talbot (musicologist) |date=2011 |chapter=Dictionary |title=The Vivaldi Compendium |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lYypmdoyPqYC |publisher=Boydell Press |pages=17–200 |isbn=9781843836704 }}

==External links==
* [http://www.muni.cz/research/publications/728294 Vivaldi's Prague opera Argippo revival. Interview with Ondřej Macek] (in Czech)
* {{IMSLP|work=Argippo, RV Anh.137 (Denzio, Antonio)|cname=''Argippo'', RV&nbsp;Anh.137 |work2=Farnace, RV 711 (Vivaldi, Antonio)|cname2=''Farnace'', RV&nbsp;711|work3=L'Atenaide, RV 702 (Vivaldi, Antonio)|cname3=''L'Atenaide'', RV&nbsp;702}}

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