The rest of the cast aren't in the same league. Sara Mingardo gives a towering performance, and there are wonderful contributions from Martín Oro and Romina Basso. Parts of the second act are missing from Vivaldi's manuscript, so a huge amount of reconstructive work has been done for this recording by its conductor, Rinaldo Alessandrini. Baroque, Easter, Instructional, Multicultural, Standards, World. The scoring is very austere, and with the exception of one soprano role, the entire thing is written for low voices. There's a very high proportion of recitative to arias, and some of the latter are perfunctory. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (UK: /vvldi/, US: /vvldi, -vl-/ Italian: antnjo luto vivaldi (listen) 4 March 1678 28 July 1741) was an Italian. For a work on an erotic subject by one of music's great sensualists, it's curiously dark and difficult. Vivaldi - Ercole sul Termodonte, RV 710 (Fabio Biondi, Vivica Genaux, Joyce DiDonato, Patrizia Ciofi, Diana Damrau. Its source is Tasso's war epic Gerusalemme Liberata, but whereas most other composers were inspired by the great love affair across battle lines between Rinaldo and Armida, Vivaldi dramatises its messy aftermath, in which Armida heads for Egypt, where she uses all her sexual powers in an attempt to persuade the caliph and his generals to raise an army against Rinaldo's forces on her behalf. Vivaldi - Armida al campo d’Egitto Label: Naive Cat No: OP30492 Barcode: 0709861304929 Format: CD Number of Discs: 3 Genre: Opera Release Date: 7th June 2010 This product has now been deleted. E ven by Vivaldi's own quirky standards as an opera composer, this is strange.

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