Adriano in Siria is a libretto by Italian poet Metastasio first performed, with music by Antonio Caldara, in Vienna in 1732, and turned into an opera by more than 60 other composers during the next ce
Metastasio by Batoni
Title page of a 1752 version of the libretto, for the performance in Dresden of the Johann Adolph Hasse opera
Bust of Sabina (Collection of the Getty Villa, Los Angeles)