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Orlando defeats but spares Argillano, leaving the magic sword on the ground as he severs the golden branch, thus opening the way for everyone into Ersilla's garden.

Argillano challenges Grifone, who is protected by Origille - she pretends that he is her young sister, â€œLeodilla.â€ Origille, who is pledged to Grifone, challenges his obvious love for Tigrinda, then vows her revenge. Grifone follows Tigrinda, who he in turn secretly loves. As the ceremony ends, Tigrinda, priestess of potions, tries unsuccessfully to tell Argillano she loves him. Ersilla's enemies, Brandimarte, Grifone and Origille spy on the rituals. Apparently the opera did not meet much approval from the audience and was billed only on few dates, just to be replaced, on 1 December, by a revival of Giovanni Alberto Ristori's Orlando furioso, a work that the Vivaldi 'impresa' had very successfully staged in 1713.Įrsilla dedicates a sword to the destruction of Orlando, and entrusts the sword and mission to Argillano, who secretly loves her. Vivaldi acted as impresario (in partnership with his father Giovanni Battista) as well as composer. The second of Vivaldi's known operas, Orlando finto pazzo premiered in November 1714 (dedication 10 November) at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice.

The plot is based on an episode in Matteo Boiardo's unfinished epic poem Orlando Innamorato. Orlando finto pazzo (Orlando, the Fake Madman) is an opera (dramma per musica) in three acts composed by Antonio Vivaldi to a libretto by Grazio Braccioli.

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