Francesco Cavalli - Heroines of the Venetian Baroque
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Label: Ricercar
Cat No: RIC359
Format: CD + Book
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 16th October 2015
Contents
Works
ArtemisiaArtists
Mariana FloresAnna Reinhold
Cappella Mediterranea
Conductor
Leonardo Garcia AlarconWorks
ArtemisiaArtists
Mariana FloresAnna Reinhold
Cappella Mediterranea
Conductor
Leonardo Garcia AlarconAbout
The opening of Venice’s first opera house, the Teatro di San Cassiano, in 1637, was one of the major events in the history of opera. The protagonists of these new operas henceforth represented all the social categories making up this public and who, in fact, had to be able to find themselves onstage. The gods were no longer the only ones to lay down the law, challenged by the Vices and Virtues who preached in the Prologues. The new heroes are kings, emperors, dictators, courtesans, as well as nurses, valets, soldiers, philosophers, and, above all, lovers. Whoever they might be, we find them sympathetic or antipathetic - all are glorified, all are ridiculed.
With his 27 existing operas, Francesco Cavalli gives us a fascinating version of this theatre of life. A single main thread runs through the excerpts drawn from each of them by Leonardo García Alarcón: the expression of human passions. They are all there, from ingenuousness to ecstasy, joy to anger, passionate love (and its erotic, sensual expression) to despair.
This fascinating programme represents a new contribution to the knowledge of Cavalli’s operas and helps unveil part of the mystery still surrounding his works.
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