L Alidoro (by Leo) DVD
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NOTE: This title is a DVD Video
DVD has no regional coding - playable in all regions
NTSC Colour
Picture format 16:9
Running time 165 minutes
Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Spanish
Leonardo Leo (1694-1744)
L Alidoro
Commedia per Musica in Three Acts
Libretto by Gennarantonio Federico
Orchestra Barocca Cappella della Pieta dei Turchini
Antonio Florio, conductor
Recorded live, Teatro Municipale, Reggio Emilia, 2008
Faustina - Maria Grazia Schiavo
Luigi (Alidoro) - Maria Ercolano
Zeza - Valentina Varriale
Elisa - Francesca Russo Ermolli
Don Marcello - Giuseppe De Vittorio
Giangrazio - Filippo Morace
Meo - Gianpiero Ruggeri
Cicco - Nino Bruno
Director: Arturo Cirillo
Alidoro, an unknown opera by Leonardo Leo, an important maestro
in the first phase of the Neapolitan school, imposes new styles and contents
on the genre of music comedy.
Leo was living through a particularly intense period of activity
in 1740: six theatrical titles including re-elaborations and new productions
among which was L’Alidoro.
With his highly personal skill, the librettist Federico drafted
a comedy in which characters speak different languages (Neapolitan or Tuscan)
according to their social status and work on different levels: one comic, the
other serious.
Cirillo, director of this modern revival, explains how in this
opera ”nothing” is happening excepting a subtle and gorgeous relational
game among the seven protagonists.
As in a Marivaux work, just social differences count here where
middle class members are attracted to servants and servants are attracted to
their peers. In this carillon of walk in and out, as in a Feydeau comedy they
go on stage only for shadowing, peeking out or courting somebody else. The site
where this is going to happen isn’t so important, it could be.. at theatre...
In Alidoro everybody is infected by the doubt.
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