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Didone abbandonata is an opera libretto in three acts by Pietro Metastasio. It was his first original work and was set to music by Domenico Sarro in 1724. The opera was accompanied by the intermezzo L'impresario delle Isole Canarie, also by Metastasio.

During the century that followed, it was set more than 50 times by other composers such as Nicola Porpora (1725), Leonardo Vinci (1726), Baldassare Galuppi (1740), Johann Adolph Hasse (1742), Niccolò Jommelli (1747), Tommaso Traetta (1757), Giuseppe Sarti (1762), Niccolò Piccinni (1770), Saverio Mercadante (1823).

For other operas based on this libretto, see Didone abbandonata (disambiguation).

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v t e Libretti by Pietro Metastasio
Gli orti esperidi (1721) Siface, re di Numidia (1723) Didone abbandonata (1724) L'impresario delle Isole Canarie (1724) Siroe re di Persia (1726) Catone in Utica (1728) Ezio (1728) Alessandro nell’Indie (1729) La passione di Gesù Cristo (1730) Artaserse (1730) Demetrio (1731) Demofonte (1731) Adriano in Siria (1732) L'Olimpiade (1733) Betulia liberata (1734) La clemenza di Tito (1734) Gioas re di Giuda (1735) Achille in Sciro (1736) Ciro riconosciuto (1736) Ipermestra (1744) Il re pastore (1751) Il trionfo di Clelia (1762)

v t e "Dido and Aeneas" from Virgil's Aeneid
Characters	Dido Aeneas
Operas	Didone (1641, Cavalli) Dido and Aeneas (1688, Purcell) discography "Dido's Lament" Didon (1693, Desmarets) Didone abbandonata (1724, Metastasio) Didone abbandonata (1724, Sarro) Didone abbandonata (1724, Albinoni) Didone abbandonata (1762, Sarti) Didon (1783, Piccinni) Dido, Queen of Carthage (1792, Storace) Les Troyens (1863, Berlioz)
Plays	Dido, Queen of Carthage (c. 1593)
Poetry	Roman d'Enéas (1160)
Music	Simple Man
Art	Dido building Carthage
Related	Low Ham Roman Villa Amelia

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