{"id":9285,"date":"2015-06-08T12:17:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T10:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cappellamediterranea.com\/post-discographie\/cavalli-heroines-of-the-venetian-baroque\/"},"modified":"2023-12-09T14:51:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T13:51:19","slug":"cavalli-heroines-of-the-venetian-baroque","status":"publish","type":"post-discographie","link":"https:\/\/cappellamediterranea.com\/en\/post-discographie\/cavalli-heroines-of-the-venetian-baroque\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavalli, Heroines of the Venetian Baroque"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In this programme, Leonardo Garc\u00eda Alarc\u00f3n remains faithful to Venetian instrumentation. He submits to the vigour and intimacy of a music that is devoid of the stylistic clumsiness and conventions that would define opera after Cavalli\u2019s death.<\/em> Indeed, Cavalli was the Mozart of the 1600s.<\/em> His music is timeless and irresistible, universal in its simplicity and truth \u2013 it is also easy to apprehend, as it goes straight to the heart. <\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Cavalli’s theatre of life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When Venice\u2019s Teatro di San Cassiano reopened in 1637, it was a major event in the history of opera. The protagonists of these new operas represented all the different social classes in the audience. Now it was not only gods, kings, empresses, dictators and courtesans who were welcomed on stage, but also nursemaids, valets, soldiers, philosophers, and above all lovers. Francesco Cavalli\u2019s 27 surviving operas present a fascinating theatre of life. The extracts selected by Leonardo Garc\u00eda Alarc\u00f3n represent the full range of human passion, from candour to ecstasy, joy to anger, and amorous passion (and its erotic and sensual nature) to despair. In a seduction scene from Ercole Amante, Venus invites her lover to touch her body. In an ensemble number from Eliogabalo, the protagonists express their hope for peace after the death of the title character, a Don Giovanni-like figure who inspires their hatred. This fascinating programme expands our knowledge of Cavalli’s operas and unveils some of the mystery that still surrounds his works. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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