Mats Norman and Dave Lampson reply to Pablo Gamba: >>>... It wasl written following a Vivaldi's opera based in mexican >>>emperor Moctezuma -?was it real?. >> >>I didn't know there was a "Montezuma" by Vivaldi, but by another >>composer.... > >Yes, Vivaldi did compose an opera with the title "Montezuma" (Motezuma), >RV 723. The German composer Carl Heinrich Graun (1704-1759), 19 years >Vivaldi's junior, also composed an opera by that name. ... Also, the American composer Roger Sessions. Steve Schwartz