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'''''Pompeo Magno''''' ('Pompeius Magnus', 'Pompey the Great') is an [[opera]] in three acts by [[Francesco Cavalli]]. It was designated as a ''[[dramma per musica]]''. The [[Italian language|Italian]] libretto was by [[Nicolò Minato]].<ref name=Clinkscale>Clinkscale 1992.</ref>

==Plot==
{{No plot|date=September 2024}}
==Performance history==
It was first performed in [[Venice]] at the [[Teatro San Salvatore]] on 20 February 1666.<ref name=Clinkscale/>

== Roles ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Role
!Voice type<ref name=Clinkscale/>
!Premiere Cast, 20 February 1666<br>(Conductor: - )
|-
| Pompeo ([[Pompey]]) 
|[[alto]]
|
|-
| Sesto ([[Sextus Pompey|Sextus]]), ''his son'' 
|[[soprano]]
|
|-
| Mitridate ([[Mithridates VI of Pontus|Mithridates]]), ''King of [[Kingdom of Pontus|Pontus]]'' 
|[[tenor]]
|
|-
| Issicratea ([[Hypsicratea|Hypsicrateia]]), ''Queen of Pontus''  
| soprano
|
|-
| Farnace ([[Pharnaces II of Pontus|Pharnaces]]), ''her son'' 
| soprano
|
|-
| Harpalia, ''her slave'' 
| soprano
|
|-
| Cesare ([[Julius Caesar|Caesar]]) 
|[[bass (vocal range)|bass]]
|
|-
| Claudio (Claudius), ''his son'' 
| tenor
|
|-
| Giulia ([[Julia (daughter of Julius Caesar)|Julia]]), ''his daughter'' 
| soprano
|
|-
| Servilio (Servilius), ''her lover'' 
| soprano
|
|-
| Crasso ([[Marcus Licinius Crassus|Crassus]]) 
| tenor
|
|-
|}
==Recordings==
* Atto I Scena 17: Come al mar corrono i fiumi Cappella Mediterranea, Leonardo García Alarcón, Clematis, Thomas Dunford, Sarah Van Oudenhove, Mariana Flores 2014
*"Alpi gelate"  Giulia Semenzato (soprano) La Venexiana Claudio Cavina  2015

==References==
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'''Sources'''
*{{Almanacco|dmy=20-02-1666|match=Pompeo Magno}}
*Clinkscale, Martha Novak (1992). "''Pompeo magno''", vol. 3, pp. 1055–1056, in ''The [[New Grove Dictionary of Opera]]'', ed. Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan. {{ISBN|0-333-73432-7}}. [https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O006747 2002 online reprint], [[Grove Music Online]].

==External links==
* [https://operabaroque.fr/CAVALLI_POMPEO.htm ''Pompeo Magno''], Opéra Baroque website
* [https://www.loc.gov/resource/music.musschatz-19770/?sp=3 ''Pompeo magno'', 1666 libretto], Library of Congress

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[[Category:Cultural depictions of Pompey]]
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[[Category:Cultural depictions of Mithridates VI Eupator]]
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