Opera
- Filippo Amadei, Giovanni Bononcini & George Frideric Handel – Muzio Scevola
- Nicola Porpora – Eumene
- Alessandro Scarlatti – La Griselda
- Georg Philipp Telemann – Der Geduldige Socrates
- Antonio Vivaldi – La Silvia'
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