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Vivaldi - Griselda | Naxos - Opera 866021113

Vivaldi - Griselda

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Label: Naxos - Opera

Cat No: 866021113

Barcode: 0730099621120

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 3

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 2nd January 2008

Contents

Artists

Giles Tomkins (bass)
Marion Newmann (mezzo-soprano)
Carla Huhtanen (soprano)
Lynne McMurtry (mezzo-soprano)
Jason Nedecky (baritone)
Colin Ainsworth (tenor)
Opera in Concert
Aradia Ensemble

Conductor

Kevin Mallon

Works

Vivaldi, Antonio

Griselda, RV718

Artists

Giles Tomkins (bass)
Marion Newmann (mezzo-soprano)
Carla Huhtanen (soprano)
Lynne McMurtry (mezzo-soprano)
Jason Nedecky (baritone)
Colin Ainsworth (tenor)
Opera in Concert
Aradia Ensemble

Conductor

Kevin Mallon

About

Vivaldi’s Griselda, one of more than twenty operas, is based on a story retold in Boccaccio’s 'Il decamerone' about the testing of Griselda’s patience and virtue by her royal husband through a series of cruel trials. The sense of drama that permeates many of Vivaldi’s more programmatic works such as the Four Seasons, is very naturally carried over into his operas, especially with the use of so-called ‘simile’ arias, in which an emotional state is compared with various natural phenomena.

Several very fine examples can be heard in Griselda, including Costanza’s extraordinary 'Agitata da due venti' in Act II. The text compares love and duty with two contrary winds, and the setting is correspondingly wild, with fierce 'fioriture' and wide leaps.

Cast:
Gualtiero: Giles Tomkins
Griselda: Marion Newmann
Costanza: Carla Huhtanen
Roberto: Lynne McMurtry
Corrado: Jason Nedecky
Ottone: Colin Ainsworth

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