[Semi-opera].


Libretto by

William DAVENANT


Music by

Henry LAWES, Matthew LOCKE, Henry COOKE, Charles COLEMAN, George HUDSON


First performance: 28-29 June 1661, Lincoln-Inn-Fields, duke of York's theatre.

PERSONS

Description, name
[sex]		 Voice type
[first performer, sex]		 

Solyman

the Magnificent   [ ♂ ]

  

unknown
[ Henry Cooke,  ♂ ]

  

Pirrhus

Vizier Bassa   [ ♂ ]

  

unknown
[ ? ]

  

Mustapha

Bassa   [ ♂ ]

  

unknown
[ ? ]

  

Rustan

Bassa   [ ♂ ]

  

unknown
[ ? ]

  

Haly

Eunuch Bassa   [ ♂ ]

  

unknown
[ ? ]

  

Villerius

Grand Master of Rhodes   [ ♂ ]

  

unknown
[ ? ]

  

Alphonso

a Cicilian duke   [ ♂ ]

  

unknown
[ Ned Colman,  ♂ ]

  

Admiral

of Rhodes   [ ♂ ]

  

unknown
[ Matthew Locke,  ♂ ]

  

High Marshal

of Rhodes   [ ♂ ]

  

unknown
[ ? ]

  

Roxolana

Wife to Solyman   [ ♀ ]

  

unknown
[ ? ]

  

Ianthe

Wife to Alphonso   [ ♀ ]

  

unknown
[ Catherine Colman,  ♀ ]

  


Women attendants to Roxolana.
Women attendants to Ianthe.
Four Pages attendants to Roxolana.


 


The scene, Rhodes.
 

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