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'''{{lang|it|L'olimpiade}}''' is an opera (''opera seria'') by [[Antonio Caldara]] to a libretto by [[Pietro Metastasio]]. The opera premiered in Vienna on {{Start date|1733|08|30|df=y}}.<ref name="Wikiwand"/>
'''{{lang|it|L'olimpiade}}''' is an operatic libretto by [[Pietro Metastasio]] It was first set to music by [[Antonio Caldara]] and the opera premiered in Vienna on {{Start date|1733|08|30|df=y}}.<ref name="Wikiwand"/> The two more versions that immediately followed are the ones a modern listener might be most familiar with: [[L'olimpiade (Antonio Vivaldi)|Antonio Vivaldi's ''L'olimpiade'']] as well as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's.
 
Subsequently, {{lang|it|L'olimpiade}} was set to music more than 60 times - the last noted one being an unfinished project by Gaetano Donizetti.<ref name="WikiOlimpiadeMetastasio"/> When Mozart wrote his concert aria KV512 "{{lang|it|Alcandro, Io confesso ... Non sò d'onde viene}}" in 1787, using Clisthene's Aria from Act III Scene VI, he could count on his audience's familiarity with the topic.<ref name="WikiKV"/>


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