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Cesti - Le Disgrazie d’Amore | Hyperion CDA677712

Cesti - Le Disgrazie d’Amore

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Label: Hyperion

Cat No: CDA677712

Barcode: 0034571177717

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 4th January 2010

Contents

Artists

Cristiana Arcari
Maria Grazia Schiavo
Furio Zanasi
Paolo Lopez Male
Enea Sorini
Antonio Abete
Luigi de Donato
Carlos Natale
Gabriella Martellacci
Martin Oro
Elena Cecchi Fedi
Francesco Ghelardini
Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani
Auser Musici

Conductor

Carlo Ipata

Works

Cesti, Antonio

Le disgrazie d'Amore

Schmelzer, Johann Heinrich

Balletto dei Ciclopi
Ballo delle Scimmie

Artists

Cristiana Arcari
Maria Grazia Schiavo
Furio Zanasi
Paolo Lopez Male
Enea Sorini
Antonio Abete
Luigi de Donato
Carlos Natale
Gabriella Martellacci
Martin Oro
Elena Cecchi Fedi
Francesco Ghelardini
Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani
Auser Musici

Conductor

Carlo Ipata

About

Pietro Antonio Cesti (born in Arezzo, 1623; died in Florence, 1669) was, along with Francesco Cavalli, the most illustrious representative of the seventeenth-century Venetian school of opera composers. Like many Seicento artists, he had an eventful life, embracing multiple activities as singer, actor, composer and maestro di cappella; like Vivaldi he took holy orders; and, like the murdered Stradella, he died in murky circumstances (probably by poisoning) after an outstanding musical career.

He was an itinerant composer, dividing his activity between Venice and the courts of Florence, Vienna and Innsbruck. The work recorded here dates from his period at the Viennese court, and the opera is characteristic of Viennese opera’s synthesis between the comical, parodic register typical of the Venetian aesthetic (of which Cavalli’s La Calisto is a remarkable example) and the moral, edifying dimension inherent to court opera.

A delightful blend of slapstick and highly allusive banter, Cesti’s comic moral opera mocks the pagan gods and the morally reprehensible excesses caused by amorous passion.

Cast:
- Allegria: Cristiana Arcari (soprano)
- Venere: Maria Grazia Schiavo (soprano)
- Vulcano: Furio Zanasi (baritone)
- Amore: Paolo Lopez male (soprano)
- Sterope: Enea Sorini (bass)
- Bronte: Antonio Abete (bass)
- Piragmo: Luigi de Donato (bass)
- Inganno: Carlos Natale (tenor)
- Adulazione: Gabriella Martellacci (contralto)
- Avarizia: Martin Oro (countertenor)
- Amicizia: Elena Cecchi Fedi (soprano)
- Cortigiano: Francesco Ghelardini (countertenor)
- Amante: Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani (tenor)

Total Duration: 154'34

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