La Didone (by Cavalli) DVD
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DVD has no regional coding - playable in all regions
NTSC Colour
Picture format 16:9
Running time 173 minutes (2DVD)
Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish
Francesco Cavalli
La Didone
Opera in a Prologue and Three Acts. Libretto by Gian Francesco Busenello.
Orchestra Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi, conductor
Recorded at Teatro La Fenice, Venezia, 2006
Didone - Claron McFalden
Enea - Magnus Staveland
Iarba / Corebo - Jordi Domènech
Cassandra / Giunone / Damigella - Manuela Custer
Ecuba / Mercurio / Ilioneo - Marina De Liso
Preceded by a solemn prologue in which Iride admonishes mortals
that they should not offend the gods, the story of Cavalli’s Didone comes
to life thanks to numerous solo passages of highly varied character and structure,
designed both for simple basso continuo support and for a more complex instrumental
accompaniment, for five real parts which enjoy some independent moments and
which create a diversion from the action or blend in with it in a wholly logical
way, intensifying it in a studied, evocative manner.
The tragic story of the Carthaginian queen is thus unfolded
with extreme attention in a framework that had already been adopted by Monteverdi,
of whom Cavalli is considered a worthy successor. In this case it is enlivened
and, we might say, given a more popular, direct appeal as it aims to communicate
with a public that is gradually expanding. The composer is sincere when he states:
”My spirit has always been far from the printing press: I have preferred
to allow my weaknesses to run where fortune takes them with the pen rather than
the press.” He identifies with the torment of Didone and with the ”force
of nature” (Prunières) that is his and the brilliance of some of
his solutions, he creates one of the most tragic, tormented operas of the entire
seventeenth century.
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