Moro per amore

Moro per amore ("Moor/Die for love") is a 1681 opera in three acts with music by Alessandro Stradella set to a libretto by Flavio Orsini last duke of Bracciano, who is credited on the title page with the anagram Filosinavoro.

The opera was scheduled for Genoa's Teatro del Falcone [it] in 1681, but was not given a public performance until 1695, more than thirteen years after the composer's death.

In order to gain the nurse's favor, Floridoro flirts with her, and is observed by Eurinda, who asks Filandro for his services for her own sake.

Lucinda, out of disappointment and jealousy, does not grant Eurinda her happiness and gives the Moor Floridoro a supposed letter from the queen to her chancellor, who is now waiting in a distant camp for the enemy Cypriot fleet to approach.

The pirates, however, recognize Floridoro as the king's son and he returns to Sicily, undisguised, at the head of his army, and three happy couples emerge.