Cavalli / Flores / Reinhold / Pustilnik / Bournisi: Heroines of the Venetian Baroque

Cavalli / Flores / Reinhold / Pustilnik / Bournisi: Heroines of the Venetian Baroque - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Heroines of the Venetian Baroque

Artist:

Cavalli / Flores / Reinhold / Pustilnik / Bournisi

Label:

Ricercar

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

5400439003590

Genre:

Classical

Sub Genre:

Opera/Operetta

Release Date:

2015-09-25

Number of Discs:

2

Additional Details:

WITH BOOK

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, philosopher, 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 it's erotic, sensual expression) to despair. This fascinating program represents a new contribution to the knowledge of Cavalli's operas and allows for unveiling part of the mystery still surrounding his works.

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