Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia ("For the health recovered from Ofelia") is a cantata composed in 1785 by Antonio Salieri, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and a certain "Cornetti", on a text of Lorenzo da Ponte. >
The joint composition of this cantata for voice and piano for the Italian-English singer Nancy Storace is the most important proof that between Mozart and Salieri there was a more or less cordial cooperation relationship; As for "Cornetti", it is a pseudonym, although at present it is not known what name is behind that nickname.
The title of the work alludes to the role of Ofelia in the opera La Grotta di Trofonio (1785) by Salieri, in which Storace reaped a great success.
For centuries it was considered lost, although it was printed in 1785 by Artaria under the catalog number Köchel K. 477a, coming to be considered legend. However, at the end of 2015 it was discovered in Prague by the German musicologist Timo Jouko Herrmann, with the presentation at the Mozarthaus in Salzburg in March 2016 and the world premiere in the city of Valladolid, with the presentation of Herrmann himself, in an event promoted by the Spanish orchestra conductor and president of the Antonio Salieri Cultural Association, Ernesto Monsalve. He himself played the key to accompany the soprano Sara María Rodríguez, in the Museum of San Joaquin and Santa Ana of the capital of Valladolid, on September 1, 2016.
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