Betulia liberata
| Betulia liberata | |
|---|---|
| Azione sacra by W. A. Mozart | |
1770 Verona portrait of Mozart | |
| Translation | The Liberation of Bethulia |
| Librettist | Pietro Metastasio |
| Language | Italian |
| Based on | Judith and Holofernes |
La Betulia liberata (The Liberation of Bethulia) is a libretto by Pietro Metastasio which was originally commissioned by Emperor Charles VI and set to music by Georg Reutter the Younger in 1734. It was subsequently set by as many as 30 composers, including Niccolò Jommelli (1743), Ignaz Holzbauer (1752), Florian Leopold Gassmann (1772), Joseph Schuster (1787), and most famously Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1771).