La finta savia

La finta savia is a 1643 drama by Giulio Strozzi written for the Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo with music by Filiberto Laurenzi. It is a sequel to Strozzi's La finta pazza (1641) whi was set to music by Francesco Sacrati.[1] The music was mainly by Laurenzi but was supplemented in act 1 with scenes 3 to 5, 10 and 12 by Tarquinio Merula, in scene 6 mainly by Arcangelo Crivelli except for a canzonetta by Laurenzi. In act 1, scenes 2 and 3 were by Crivelli and in act 3 scenes 1 and 7 to 9 by Benedetto Ferrari.[2]

cover of Strozzi's libretto

Recording

• Filiberto Laurenzi La finta savia – Arias, Elena Cecchi Fedi, Carlo Vistoli, Sezione Aurea Ensemble, Filippo Pantieri, Brilliant Classics 2018

References

1. Ellen Rosand, Monteverdi's Last Operas: A Venetian Trilogy, 2007, 0520933273, Page 14: "Strozzi's preface to La finta savia, the second work, spells out its sequential relationship to the first: La finta pazza contains a Greek story, La finta savia a Latin one; the former leads toward the destruction of Troy, the latter refers to the future founding of Rome."
2. "Finta savia, La" by John Whenham, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera