Ascanio in Alba

Pastoral opera in 2 parts

• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, K. 111
• Librettist: Abbé Giuseppe Parini
• First performance: Teatro Regio Ducal, Milan, 17 October 1771

Dramatis Personæ

Venere [Venus] (soprano)

Ascanio, her grandson, son of Aeneas (male soprano)

Silvia, a nymph descended from Hercules (soprano)

Aceste, a priest of Venus (tenor)

Fauno, a shepherd (male soprano)

[Genii, Shepherds & Shepherdesses] (chorus)

Setting: the site of the future city of Alba Longa, near Rome; mythical times.