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{{Infobox opera
| name              = {{lang|it|Creso}}
| type              = [[Opera seria]]
| composer          = [[Antonio Sacchini]]
| image             = Antonio Sacchini engraved portrait.jpg
| image_upright     = 0.9
| caption           = Antonio Sacchini, engraved portrait
| librettist        = Gioacchino Pizzi
| language          = Italian
| based_on          = ''[[Histories (Herodotus)|Histories]]'' by [[Herodotos]]
| premiere_date     = {{Start date|1765|11|04|df=y}}
| premiere_location = [[Teatro San Carlo]], Naples
}}
'''{{lang|it|Creso}}''' ('[[Croesus]]') is an ''[[opera seria]]'' in 3 acts with music by [[Antonio Sacchini]], set to an Italian [[libretto]] by Gioacchino Pizzi after Book I of the ''[[Histories (Herodotus)|Histories]]'' by [[Herodotos]]. The opera was first performed on 4 November 1765 at the [[Teatro San Carlo]] in [[Naples]]. The libretto was a popular one that had been first set by [[Niccolò Jommelli]] (Rome, 1757).

''Creso'' was the most widely performed of Sacchini's ''opera serias'', and much of the music displays the transition that the aria form of ''opera seria'' was undergoing. The standard aria ''dal segno'' form is interlaced with examples of abbreviated rondo form (ABAB) and through-composed ternary arias. Some of the music suggests themes from the works of the widely influential [[Tommaso Traetta]].

==Roles==

{| class="wikitable"
!Role
!Voice type
!Premiere Cast, 4 November 1765<br />(Conductor:)
|-
| Creso (Croesus)
|[[tenor]] 
|Salvatore Casetti
|-
| Ariene, ''his daughter'', 
|[[soprano]] 
|[[Antonia Maria Girelli|Maria Antonia Girelli-Aguilar]]
|-
| Euriso, ''Ariene's betrothed'' 
|soprano [[castrato]] 
|[[Giuseppe Aprile]] "Sciroletto"
|-
| Cratina 
|soprano 
|Francesca Gabrielli
|-
| Ciro 
|soprano castrato
|Antonio Muzzio
|-
| Sibari 
|soprano castrato 
|Giuseppe Fabrizi
|-
|}

==References==
* {{Almanacco|dmy=04-11-1765|match=Creso}}
* {{Cite Grove |last=McClymonds |first=Marita P. |title=Creso}}

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