Editing Orlando Furioso (section)

===Music===
In the Baroque era, the poem was the basis of many operas. Among the earliest were [[Francesca Caccini]]'s ''[[La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola d'Alcina]]'' ("The Liberation of Ruggiero from Alcina's Island", 1625), [[Luigi Rossi]]'s ''[[Il palazzo incantato]]'' (1642) and [[Agostino Steffani]]'s ''[[Orlando generoso]]'' (1691). [[Antonio Vivaldi]], as an [[impresario]] as well as a composer, staged three operas on themes from Ariosto: ''Orlando furioso'' (1713) by [[Giovanni Alberto Ristori]], ''[[Orlando furioso (Vivaldi, 1714)|Orlando Furioso]]'' (1714), with music by Ristori and by himself, and ''[[Orlando furioso (Vivaldi)|Orlando]]'' (1727). Perhaps the most famous operas inspired by the poem are those by [[George Frideric Handel|Handel]]: ''[[Orlando (opera)|Orlando]]'' (1733), ''[[Ariodante]]'' and ''[[Alcina]]'' (1735). In France, [[Jean-Baptiste Lully]] turned to Ariosto for his ''tragédie en musique [[Roland (Lully)|Roland]]'' (1685). [[Jean-Philippe Rameau|Rameau]]'s comic opera ''[[Les Paladins]]'' (1760) is based on a story in canto 18 of ''Orlando'' (though Rameau's librettist derived the plot indirectly via La Fontaine's ''Contes''). The enthusiasm for operas based on Ariosto continued into the Classical era and beyond with such examples as [[Johann Adolph Hasse]]’s ''[[Il Ruggiero]]'' (1771), [[Niccolò Piccinni]]'s ''[[Roland (Piccinni)|Roland]]'' (1778), [[Joseph Haydn|Haydn]]'s ''[[Orlando paladino]]'' (1782), [[Étienne Méhul|Méhul]]'s ''[[Ariodant]]'' (1799) and [[Simon Mayr]]'s ''[[Ginevra di Scozia]]'' (1801). [[Ambroise Thomas]] wrote a comedic one-act, ''[[Angélique et Médor]]'', in 1843.<ref>See entries on individual works in [[Grove Dictionary of Music|Grove]] or ''The Viking Opera Guide'' (ed. Holden, 1994).</ref> [[ Augusta Holmès]] wrote her orchestral work Roland Furieux in 1876.