Germanico in Germania is an opera in three acts composed by Nicola Porpora to an Italian-language libretto by Nicola Coluzzi. It premiered in February 1732 at the Teatro Capranica in Rome with an all-
Nicola Antonio Porpora
Thusnelda was a Germanic Cheruscan noblewoman who was captured by the Roman general Germanicus during his invasion of Germania. She was the wife of Arminius. Tacitus and Strabo cite her capture as evi
Thusnelda statue in Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence.
The Wife of Arminius Brought Captive to Germanicus by Benjamin West, 1773
Hermann and Thusnelda (Tischbein, 1822)
Thusnelda at the Triumph of Germanicus, by Karl von Piloty, 1873