Bravissimi ! The three best "Armides" are: Handel, Jommelli and Sarti. A special feature of the libretto is that the dramatic development does not result from intrigues, as in Metastasio's texts, but from the inner conflicts of the protagonists. The power of Armida, who is initially far superior, gradually decays. Jommelli's music follows this dramatic development precisely and is unique in this respect compared to other contemporary operas. The composer did not limit himself to formal elements, but also interpreted the text in a picturesque way, motivically and harmonically. At the premiere on May 30, 1770 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, a first-class cast - Anna Lucia De Amicis (Armida), Giuseppe Aprile (Rinaldo), Apollonia Marchetti (Erminia), Arcangelo Cortoni (Tancredi), Pietro Santi (Rambaldo), Gerlando Speciali (Dano) and Tommaso Galeazzi (Ubaldo) sang.
Quest’esecuzione è mirabile: voci espressive, nitide e potenti rendono concreti i protagonisti. La Freiburger Barockorchester ricama gli affetti in modo meraviglioso! Giulio Cesare viva! 🎶🎶🎵🎵😊
How could Lully compose such beautiful music to this story full of dramatical weakness? Sorry to quinault, this plot is confusing.... but thanks to him for all those moments that Lully inspired to this wonderful music , making Amadis one of his best operas. Amadis is a miracle....
Splendide opéra, l'un des chefs-d’œuvre de l'opéra tardo-métastasien. Luks est excellent comme d'habitude. Je m'interroge toutefois sur certains changements : la Sinfonia originale n'est pas perdue (Freeman commente dans son livre cette ouverture qui a par ailleurs été enregistrée) ; le (splendide) chœur "I tuoi strali" est manifestement repris de la version de Hasse, qui est tout aussi réussie que celle de Myslivecek, mais est beaucoup plus ancienne (1756) et relève donc d'une esthétique assez différente. Quant à l'extrait de l'Ezio de Gluck (1750), il est très beau, mais ne me semble pas du tout à sa place et change le dénouement du drame.
Очень красивая, компактная, и вполне динамичная опера. Речитативы 🔥 И.. пожалуй, это уже почти не барокко, не правда ли? Очень понравились меццо и сопрано. И дирижёр) Спасибо❤
Что значит - "опера"? Надо говорить: ВИМОН - вокально-інструментальная музьіка особого назначения! На вашем 👅 сейчас, вроде бьі, так нужно изъясняться.
En effet! J’avais moi-même assisté à l’époque aux représentations lilloises, avec un cast légèrement différent (Salomé Haller en Médée). Un beau souvenir!
Le roi Mithridate Eupator apparaît comme un souverain courageux qui a affronté l'inflexible pouvoir romain pour aggrandir son royaume et comme un incroyable stratège, faisant fabriquer une tour portée par un vaisseau pour l"appuyer contre les murs d'une ville portuaire impossible à conquérir - un cas unique à son époque. De plus ce ne sont pas les soldats romains qui ont eu raison de lui, mais les auxilliarii Ligures, les seuls guerriers qui se sont montrés capables d'affronter victorieusemente les redoutables phalanges de Mithridate
Si può risorgere in vari modi…con la forza delle luminose voci degli interpreti, Lucifero incluso e con la musica di Händel che, anche quando descrive i momenti più cupi, non è mai disperata, ma lascia sempre uno spiraglio di luce ... verso cui orientarsi! Grazie anche per il link del libretto! 🪁
Extraordinary. Excellently written and excellently performed. A. Scarlatti died in Naples on 22. 10. 1725., and was buried in the church of Santa Maria a Montesanto, where in the chapel of S. Cecilia you can still read the inscription on the tombstonea: «Heic,...., makimus " - "Here is buried the knight Alessandro Scarlatti, a man distinguished by balance, generosity and kindness, the greatest innovator of music"!
Quando ho ascoltato questa serenata per la prima volta non sapevo nemmeno chi fosse Hasse e chi cantasse! Ora so bene che Hasse è stato un grandissimo compositore e che la superba voce di Cleopatra è quella di Valer Sabadus nel pieno della sua brillante carriera. Marc’Antonio ha la magnifica voce del contralto Delphine Galau. Per non tacere di Accademia Bizantina e del suo strepitoso direttore! Confermo la mia prima impressione: questo video è una perla. Anzi è una collana di perle! 🤩🎶🎻
Handel's magic 2:24:29 "Let not fame the tidings spread" (Hyllus III, 2). Mozart, J. Haydn,...,Beethoven, Schubert considered Handel "the greatest composer of all time"! Excellently performed!
Coincidence, which leads to this wonderful opera - Graupner was admitted to the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where he studied from 1696 to 1704; law at the University of Leipzig, along the way befriending Telemann - but the Swedish invasion of Saxony sent him fleeing to Hamburg in 1706., orchestra of the Oper am Gänsemarkt in Hamburg under the direction of Reinhard Keiser. Eclectic musical styl Kaiser, Graupnera extremely popular with the Hamburg audience. Extra bellissima: 1:24:12 Chorus "Großer Mithra, Byrsens Schutz".
Extraordinary. Excellently written and excellently performed. Giacomelli "La Merope" (Venezia, 1734.), Vivaldi "Il Tamerlano" ("Il Bajazet") (Verona Carnival 1735.) - Giacomelli "Sposa... non mi conosci" (Aria of Epitide III, 7) Vivaldi put in his "Bajite (Aria of Irene II, 7)" Sposa son disprezzata". Geminiano Giacomelli was appointed chapel master of the Duke of Parma in 1724. After the performance of his opera entitled "Ipermestra", in 1724, he continued his studies with Alessandro Scarlatti in the city of Naples and became one of the most popular composers of his time. Between 1724 and 1740 he composed 19 operas and for many years worked at the Viennese imperial court. His most famous work is "Caesar in Egypt", 1735.
Extraordinary. Excellently written and excellently performed. L'opera serie - an very dense aesthetic jet, bearer of multiple meanings. A first layer of meaning - distortions that characterize the theatrical environment. On a deeper level, the work stigmatizes with happy irony the shortcomings charms and contradictions of drama for Metastasio opera series music and suggests new formal perspectives and new stylistic measures. "Opera in an opera" about customs and rules in opera production, about prima donnas, their mothers and & (SIC! who participate in making the opera), about the number of arias they will sing, etc. Thanks to Rene Jacobs - saved from oblivion - very important opera by the imperial composer Gassmann - as part of the Schwetzingen festival of 1994; then revived the show in Paris in 2003...
