Name: Farnace
Start: 2013-06-13T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2013-06-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Organization

Festival del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Contre-ténor

Mary-Ellen Nesi

Farnace

Soprano

Delphine Galou

Berenice

Contralto

Sonia Prina

Tamiri

Loriana Castellano

Selinda

Emanuele D'Aguanno

Pompée

Roberta Mameli

Gilade

Ténor

Magnus Staveland

Aquilo

Direction d'orchestre

Federico Maria Sardelli

Mise en scène

Marco Gandini

Costumes

Italo Grassi

Simona Morresi

Décors

Chanteur

Dario Shikhmiri

Coro

Carlo Riccioli

Attori

Carmelo Galati

Lumières

Valerio Tiberi

Video

Virginio Levrio

Clavicembalo

Giulia Nuti

Orchestra

Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Florence

Italie

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Il Farnace by A.Vivaldi, from Opera di Firenze, 2013. Directed by Marco Gandini, conductor Federico Maria Sardelli, starring Delphine Galou, Sonia Prina, Roberta Mameli, Carmelo Galati, Mary-ellen Nesi, Loriana Castellano, Magnus Staveland, Emanuele D’aguanno and Carlo Riccioli. Performed in Italian and subtitled in English, German, French, Italian and Korean.

Farnace Vivaldi

Valide

Conductor Federico Maria Sardelli 
Director Marco Gandini
Opera di Firenze - Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Farnace - Mary-Ellen Nesi
Berenice - Delphine Galou
Tamiri - Sonia Prina
Selinda - Loriano Castellano
Pompeo - Emanuele d'Aguanno
Gilade - Roberta Mameli
Aquilio - Magnus Staveland

World premiere recording on DVD availaible also  on Bluray and CD. Worldwide distribution by Naxos.

The 1738 version of Il Farnace has never been performed and recorded in scenic form before. This is one of Vivaldi's best operas and in this version it has only two acts because the third one has been lost. Federico Maria Sardelli, one of the greatest Vivaldi's specialists is firmly against reconstruction of missing parts and has preferred here to leave things as they are. At the end of the second act he just added the beautiful aria "Gelido in ogni vena" from 1727 version, maybe Vivaldi's finest aria ever.

Il Farnace is the most re-written and re-proposed of Vivaldi’s operas, it’s like a beloved child who worries his father, and to whom the parent always wants to give the best. Versions of Farnace, two in 1727 and one each in 1730, 1731 and 1732, had been conceived and adapted to the different circumstances for Venice, Prague, Pavia and Mantua, always with a cast to Vivaldi’s satisfaction and with the composer in control of the production. The greatest appreciation of Vivaldi’s operatic music was expressed in a letter by a spectator of the 1727 Carnival season, the abbot Antonio Conti. He wrote to Madame de Caylus that of all the operas of the Venice season he liked best Farnace because its music was very varied, “between the sublime and the tender”, and because Vivaldi’s pupil worked wonders.

Il Farnace, Vivaldi directed by F.M.Sardelli - Dynamic

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