Veremonda

The conductor and musicologist Aaron Carpenè prepared the score from the manuscript conserved in the Marciana Library in Venice.

The motive, unknown to her, is that the young and handsome general of the Spanish army Delio is having a secret love affair with the Moorish queen Zelemina.

Attired as a soldier and having convinced Delio to take her to study the citadel walls in order to understand how to attack them, Veremonda however has not reckoned with the darkness of the night and the remote forest that rouse the young general’s erotic appetite.

Veremonda unconvincingly succeeds in delaying Delio’s pressing advances and urges him to enter into the fortress together thanks to a ring given to him by Zelemina that gives free access.

The final scene celebrates the Spanish victory and the nuptial union between Delio and the converted Zelemina.