Haydn - Acide | BIS BISSACD1812

Haydn - Acide

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Label: BIS

Cat No: BISSACD1812

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 2nd March 2009

Contents

Artists

Bernard Richter
Raffaella Milanesi
Jennifer O’Loughlin
Ivan Paley
Adrineh Simonian
Haydn Sinfonietta Wien

Conductor

Manfred Huss

Works

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Acide e Galatea, Hob.XXVIII:1

Artists

Bernard Richter
Raffaella Milanesi
Jennifer O’Loughlin
Ivan Paley
Adrineh Simonian
Haydn Sinfonietta Wien

Conductor

Manfred Huss

About

BIS is proud to release a rarely (if ever) recorded fragment of Haydn’s opera Acide which was composed for the celebrations of the wedding of Count Anton Esterházy and Countess Maria Theresia Erdödy, and performed at the Esterházy residence at Eisenstadt on 11th January 1763.

The Italian libretto, by G. A. Migliavacca, re-tells the well-known episode from Ovid’s Metamorphoses in which the nymph Galatea witnesses the death of her lover Acis (Acide) at the hands of the cyclops Polyphemus. Four arias and most of the recitatives from the original 1763 version of Acide have been lost, but complementing the remaining numbers are two arias and a recitative composed by Haydn for a planned, but never realised, second production in 1773.

Cast:
- Bernard Richter: Acide
- Raffaella Milanesi: Galatea
- Jennifer O’Loughlin: Glauce
- Iván Paley: Polifemo & Nettuno
- Adrineh Simonian: Tetide

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