 The opera premiered on 6 February 1719 at the Hoftheater in Vienna and proved to be one of Conti's most successful ones.It has had several revivals in modern times beginning in 1987 at the Buxton Festival.The opera's librettists, Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati, had written the librettos for many of Conti's Vienna operas, either individually or jointly.