25 February 2012
Cavalli: Gli Amori di Apollo e Dafne
Easy CD-DA | FLAC tracks | Covers | 347+343Mb Mb
2 CD | Date CD: 2006 | Naxos | 144:31
CD 1
CD 2
A chorister at St Mark's in Venice under Monteverdi, Cavalli became organist at the Basilica in 1639 and was to win a reputation as a leading composer of opera for the new commercial opera-houses of Venice in the generation after Monteverdi. The pastoral Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne (The Loves of Apollo and of Daphne) was Cavalli's second opera, setting a libretto by Busenello, who provided the text, three years later, for Monteverdi's last opera, L'incoronazione di Poppea. Cavalli's opera deals with the god Apollo's amorous pursuit of the chaste Daphne, who finds refuge in metamorphosis into a laurel tree, to her lover's distress.
Mario Zeffiri (Apollo/Titone)
Marianna Pizzolato (Dafne)
Marisa Martins (Aurora/Venere/Itaton)
Agustín Prunell-Friend (Cefalo/Pan)
Assumpta Mateu (Filena/Procri/1a musa)
Carlo Lepore (Alfesibeo/Peneo/Sonno/2o pastore)
José Ferrero (Cirilla/Morfeo/1o pastore)
Soledad Cardoso (Amore)
Ugo GUagliardo (Giove/Panto)
Fabiola Masino(2a musa/1a ninfa)
Luisa Maesso (3a musa/2a ninfa)
Orquesta Joven de la Sinfónica de Galicia
Alberto Zedda, conductor
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1 comment:
It's really wonderful, many thanks for this Cavalli's opera!
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