Yannick Debus: L'Ercole amante - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

L'Ercole amante

Artist:

Yannick Debus

Label:

Cpo Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

0761203572823

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2025-08-15

Number of Discs:

2

Antonia Bembo's opera L'Ercole amante waited nearly 340 years for it's premiere. This delay may have been due to the subject matter, as her teacher, Antonio Cavalli, had already composed a festival opera based on the same tragedy for the wedding of Louis XIV and Maria Theresa of Spain in 1660. Although the Sun King, reportedly an admirer of her compositions, had taken the Venetian singer under his wings following her separation from her husband and relocation to France, he was already by then quite familiar with the tragic tale of Hercules. And so, he allowed the enchanting and emotionally stirring music, rich with arias, to pass him by. Finally, on May 26, 2023, Jorg Halubek and Il Gusto Barocco brought this long-overlooked masterpiece to it's well-deserved breakthrough at Stuttgart's Liederhalle.

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