This is a real discovery that this baroque opera Artaserse ultimate leader of the Neapolitan composer Doeuvre Leonardo da Vinci (1696-1730) "the ²Lully of Italy" was said compound on a beautiful text by Metastasio, must librettist of Italy of that time and which tells the story particularly tangled Persian emperor Artarserse But quimporte, music is there, beautiful, mesmerizing and impressive dune vitality. It is served by five beautifully against tenors (a papal decree of that time forbidding women to perform on the theater stage in the city) from around the world and all dune fabulous musical vivacity Croatian Max Emanuel Cencic who joined the French Philippe Jaroussky, the excellent Argentine Franco Fagioli, Romanian Valer Barna-Sabadus and lUkrainien Yuriy Mynenko, tenor Daniel Behler complete this dream cast. It is the leader Diego Fasolis head of the Concerto Köln (goldsmith by the way), which gives an incredible boost to the opera reborn from the ashes of oblivion. A first mondialeA expressly recommend.
