Editing Olybrius (section)

==Olybrius in culture==
In 1707, [[Apostolo Zeno]] and [[Pietro Pariati]] wrote a ''[[libretto]]'' entitled ''Flavio Anicio Olibrio''. The story told in the opera is quite different from the real one, despite the fact that Zeno claimed to use several historical sources ([[Evagrius Scholasticus]] l.2.c.7, [[Procopius of Caesarea]], ''Historia Vandalorum'', l.1, [[Paul the Deacon]], vi): Ricimer captures Rome, frees his sister [[Teodolinda]] and enslaves Placidia, daughter of Valentinian III; a little later, Olybrius frees Rome and Placidia, and marries her.<ref>Apostolo Zeno, ''Poesie drammatiche'', Volume 10, Giambattista Pasquali, 1744, Venezia, p. 385.</ref>

The ''libretto'' was written for a ''dramma per musica'' in three acts by [[Francesco Gasparini]], performed that same year in the [[Teatro San Cassiano]] in [[Venice]], but the same ''libretto'' was put to music also by [[Nicola Porpora]] (1711, in Naples, as ''Il trionfo di Flavio Anicio Olibrio''),{{efn|Performed in Rome in 1722, it was the début in that city of the then seventeen-years-old [[Farinelli]]<ref>Philip H. Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim, Edward A. Langhans, ''A Biographical Dictionary of Actors'', Volume 5, SIU Press, 1978, {{ISBN|0-8093-0832-0}}, p. 146.</ref> by [[Leonardo Vinci]] (Naples, 1728, as ''Ricimero''),<ref>Kurt Sven Markstrom, ''The operas of Leonardo Vinci, Napoletano'', Pendragon Press, 2007, {{ISBN|1-57647-094-6}}, p. 259.</ref> and by [[Andrea Bernasconi]] (1737, [[Wien]], as ''Flavio Anicio Olibrio o La tirannide debellata'').<ref>Eleanor Selfridge-Field, ''A new chronology of Venetian opera and related genres, 1660–1760'', Stanford University Press, 2007, {{ISBN|0-8047-4437-8}}, p. 284.</ref> The ''libretto'' was also rewritten for the ''Ricimero'' by [[Niccolo Jommelli]], performed at the [[Teatro Argentina]] in [[Rome]] in 1740.<ref>Letizia Norci Cagiano, ''Lo specchio del viaggiatore. Scenari italiani tra Barocco e Romanticismo'', Ed. di Storia e Letteratura, 1992, pp. 54–55.</ref>}}