title: La vera costanza (Anfossi)
text: # La vera costanza (Anfossi)
  
  La vera costanza ("True Constancy"), is an operatic dramma giocoso in three acts by Pasquale Anfossi. The comédie larmoyante-influenced Italian libretto was by Francesco Puttini. The opera preceded Joseph Haydn's better known setting of the same libretto by three years.
  
  ## Performance history
  
  The work was first performed on 2 January 1776 at the Teatro delle Dame, Rome. It was successful and performed widely throughout Europe during the following two decades.
  
  ## Roles
  
  | Role | Voice type | Premiere Cast, 2 January 1776 (Conductor: – ) |
  | - | - | - |
  | Count Errico, secret husband of Rosina | tenor | Gioacchino Costa/Filippo Tonnini |
  | Rosina, a fisherwoman abandoned by Errico | soprano castrato travesti | Pietro Tiburzj |
  | Marquis Ernesto, friend of Errico | tenor | Francesco Paolo Agresta |
  | Baroness Irene, Count Errico's aunt who wishes to marry Ernesto | soprano castrato travesti | Antonio Rosselli |
  | Villotto, a foolish gentleman, would-be suitor for Rosina | bass | Serafino Blasi |
  | Lisetta, baroness's maid | soprano castrato travesti | Domenico Bruni |
  | Masino, fisherwoman, brother of Rosina | baritone or tenor | Francesco Ciaranfi |
  
  ## Synopsis
  
      See synopsis of the Haydn opera.
  