A pearl over for Vivaldi

Farnace is the work of a less Venetian Vivaldi and European unlike most of his opus: having met the Habsburg Emperor Charles VI in 1728, which admires the highest degree of musical talent Rosso priest, Vivaldi was steeped in the music of the Viennese court.

1728-1733 These years are decisive for his career illustrates his lyrical Farnace control capabilities. it is all the more essential in demonstrating his style as Handel in London, he faces direct competition Neapolitan operas and their spectacular castrati.

Farnace is probably one of the most successful operas of Vivaldi whose popularity in Europe was particularly attached to his concertos for strings, and especially on the inexhaustible Four Seasons.

The first performance took place at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice February 10, 1727 and met with great public success when it was created. It was taken the following months and years in different versions.

Fasolis Diego and his musicians have managed the feat here to restore vitality and inexhaustible spontaneity where the Venetian opera demonstrates exceptional creativity in a speech more varied, and very effective in never tiresome succession of choirs, duets, arias and vocal quartets and approaching the dynamics of the opera in the best tradition ... Handelian

This "dramma per musica" unfolds in three acts a musical universe where virtuosity vies to emotion. Against the backdrop of dynastic quarrels at the time of Pompey, a family drama unfolds in a straight line Corneille tragedy.
Farnace, defeated by his enemy Pompeo, is expelled from Heraclea, the capital of the kingdom of Pontus. Obviously, he wants revenge. Tamiri, his wife tried to dissuade him. But that's not counting the strong will of her husband who orders him to sacrifice their son and commit suicide before falling into the hands of the enemy ....

Perfect sound balance in its variations, nobility of tone and its neutral and glowing orchestration of color and vitality, opera is magnified by a very strong distribution and well engaged in this adventure:

Max Emanuel Cencic, Ruxandra Donose, Mary-Ellen Nesi, Ann Hallenberg, Karina Gauvin,

Orchestra: I Barocchisti

Conductor: Diego Fasolis

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