Il Sogno di Scipione

Scipio's Dream

Dramatic serenade in one act

• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, K. 126
• Librettist: Pietro Metastasio
• Source: Somnium Scipionis, by Cicero
• First performance: Palace of the Archbishop, Salzburg, 1? May, 1772
• Libretto

Dramatis Personæ

Scipione [Scipio Africanus the Younger], (tenor)

La Constanza [Constancy] (soprano)

La Fortuna [Fortune] (soprano)

Publio [Scipio Africanus the Elder], Scipio's uncle and adoptive father (tenor)

Emilio [Æmilius], Scipio's father (tenor)

[Soloist], in closing Licenza (epilogue) (soprano)

[Heroes] (chorus)

Setting: North Africa; during the reign of Massinissa, King of Eastern Numidia, c. 200 B.C.