What is "ezio"

Ezio ("Aetius", HWV 29) is an opera seria by George Frideric Handel to a libretto by Metastasio. Metastasio's libretto was partly inspired by Jean Racine's play Britannicus. The same libretto had already been set by many other composers first of all Nicola Porpora who managed to preempt the official Rome premiere of Pietro Auletta's setting for 26 December 1728 with his own version (of a slightly edited copy of the libretto) for Venice on 20 November, a month earlier. The libretto continued to be set and reset for another 50 years, including two versions of Ezio by Gluck. Handel's Ezio is considered one of the purest examples of opera seria with its absence of vocal ensembles.

The story of the opera is a fictionalisation of events in the life of the fifth-century AD Roman general Flavius Aetius (Ezio in Italian), returned from his victory over Attila.

Ezio is an Italian masculine name, originating from the Latin name Aetius.

It may refer to:

• Flavius Aetius (c. 396–454), Roman general, after whom Metastasio's libretto and all the operas below are named.
  • Ezio (libretto), opera libretto by Metastasio. Notable setting are:
    • Ezio (Handel), King's Theatre, London 1732
    • Ezio (Mysliveček) (1775), Naples
    • Ezio (Mysliveček) (1777), Munich – completely new music
    • Ezio (Gluck), Prague 1750, revised Vienna 1763
    • Ezio (Traetta) by Tommaso Traetta, Teatro delle Dame, Rome, 1757
    • Ezio (Latilla), Naples 1758
• Ezio (band), a band from Cambridge, England
• Ezio Gamba (born 1958), an Italian judoka
• Ezio Mauro (born 1948), an Italian journalist
• Ezio Auditore da Firenze, the protagonist of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood and Assassin's Creed Revelations
• Ezio (security), a security solution range for online banking and shopping from Gemalto
• EZ-IO, an intraosseous infusion drill by Vidacare
• Ezio (Flavius Aetius), character from Verdi's Attila (opera)

Ezio is a folk music band from Cambridge, England formed in 1990. Ezio have eight studio albums, one compilation album, four live albums and three videos / DVDs, built up a large fanbase without breaking into the mainstream of the British music scene. Ezio Lunedei is the lead singer and main composer, Mark "Booga" Fowell plays guitar, Lidia Cascarino plays bass, "The Reverend" Lee Russell plays percussion, steel guitar and a variety of other instruments, and Alex Reeves plays the drums. The band vary their touring routine depending on the venue - some gigs will feature all five members in the line-up, whereas some gigs in smaller venues will have just Ezio and Booga.

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Ezio is an opera eroica or "heroic" opera in 3 Acts by Gaetano Latilla. The opera uses an Italian language libretto by Pietro Metastasio. Metastasio's libretto was partly inspired by Jean Racine's play Britannicus and had earlier been set to music by George Frideric Handel in 1732. The work's protagonist is the fifth-century AD Roman general Flavius Aetius (Ezio in Italian), returned from his victory over Attila. Latilla's version premiered at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples on 10 July 1758. The composer both directed and conducted the production and Vincenzo Re designed the sets used in the premiere. The cast included Giovanni Carestini in the title roles, Caterina Gabrielli as Fulvia, Maddalena Galli as Onoria, Caterina Galli as Valentiniano III, Gregorio Babbi as Massimo, and Antonio Ambrogi as Varo.

Ezio is a baroque opera in three acts composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck, staged in 1750 and revised in 1763.

Ezio is an eighteenth-century Italian opera in 3 acts by the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček. It was the composer's first setting of a libretto by the Italian poet Metastasio that was first performed with music by Pietro Auletta in 1728, one of the most popular of the Metastasian librettos in Mysliveček's day. The story is based on incidents from the lives of the 5th-century Roman emperor Valentinian III and his general Aetius. For a performance in the 1770s, it would only be expected that a libretto of such age would be abbreviated and altered to suit contemporary operatic taste. The cuts and changes in the text made for the 1775 performance of Mysliveček's opera are not attributable. All of Mysliveček's operas are of the serious type in Italian language referred to as opera seria.

Ezio is an opera libretto by Metastasio, first officially set to music by Pietro Auletta and premièred in the Teatro delle Dame, Rome, on December 26, 1728; an unauthorized setting by Nicola Porpora had already been premièred a month earlier (November 20) in Venice.

Other notable settings include:

• Ezio (Handel), King's Theatre, London 1732
• Ezio (Mysliveček) (1775), Naples
• Ezio (Mysliveček) (1777), Munich – completely new music
• Ezio (Gluck), Prague 1750, revised Vienna 1763
• Ezio (1730), Johann Adolph Hasse, Naples, revised Dresden 1755
• Ezio (1750), Davide Perez, Teatro Regio Ducal, Milan
• Ezio (1757), Tommaso Traetta, Teatro delle Dame, Rome
• Ezio (Latilla), Naples 1758