The first performance might have been on 2 June 1713. A dedication from the librettist, Rossi, to the French ambassador, the Duc d'Aumont, appears with that date in a printed copy of the libretto. There may have been a private performance at the Queen's Theatre, London. However according to the Amadeus Almanac, the performance took place at Burlington House. The opera has been performed in modern times, for instance at the London Handel Festival in 2000 and at the Handel Festival, Halle in 2015.

Librettist Giacomo Rossi, after Plutarch's Life of Sulla
Date of composition 1713 (April-May 1713)
Premiered 1713, June 2nd
Dedicated to Libretto dedicated to the Duke D'Aumont
Type Opera Seria
Catalogue HWV 10
Spoken language Italian
Instruments Voice (Castrato) - Silla, Roman dictator
Voice (Soprano) - Metella, Silla's wife
Voice (Castrato) - Lepido, tribune
Voice (Soprano) - Flavia, Lepido's wife
Voice (Contralto) - Claudio, senator, Celia's lover
Voice (Soprano) - Celia, Catulus' daughter
Voice (Bass) - The god Mars
Silent Role - Scabro
Orchestra
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Autotranslations beta Georg Friedrich Haendel: Silla, HWV 10
Georg Friedrich Händel: Silla, HWV 10
Georg Friedrich Händel: Silla, HWV 10