Organization

Musikfestspiele Potsdam Sanssouci

Conductor

Christophe Rousset

Stage director

Nicola Raab

Singer

Soprano

Axelle Fanyo

Pulcheria

Anara Khassenova

Jocasta

Baritone

Olivier Cesarini

Sultan

Tenor

Marco Angioloni

Anapiet

Clara Guillon

Genio/Auralba

Eleonore Gagey

La Difficoltà/Cillene

Iryna Kyshliaruk

Florina

Il Timore

Les Talens Lyriques

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Le amazzoni nell'isole fortunate

Beaune

France

Festival de Beaune

Potsdam

Germany

Sanssouci

Le amazzoni nell'isole fortunate Pallavicino

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Approved

Le Amazzoni nell’isole fortunate est un Dramma per musica en un prologue et trois actes, composé par Carlo Pallavicino (ca 1630-1688) en 1679 pour l’inauguration du théâtre privé du procurateur vénitien Marco Contarini à Piazzola sul Brenta, près de Padoue. À sa création le 11 novembre 1679, devant un public de choix composé de nobles vénitiens et de nombreux ambassadeurs étrangers, l’opéra obtient un tel succès qu’il est relaté dans toute la presse européenne.
Le livret de Francesco Maria Piccioli narre les intrigues amoureuses déclenchées par l’arrivée d’un naufragé sur l’île des amazones, qui n’est autre qu’Anapiet, espion du roi des Égyptiens Sultan, qui projette d’assiéger ces femmes guerrières, avant de finir par épouser leur reine, Pulcheria.
Si l’œuvre ne met en scène aucune légende mythologique ou fait historique particuliers, le librettiste s’inspire de l’univers des amazones représenté dans diverses œuvres, des écrits de Diodore de Sicile ou de Federico della Valle jusqu’à l’opéra Ercole sul Termodonte de Vivaldi, créé un an plus tôt à Venise. Il peut ainsi faire preuve d’une grande avant-garde en donnant le devant de la scène à ses personnages féminins, et en traitant notamment une relation homosexuelle entre deux amazones avec sérieux, sans travestissement ni ironie. Son livret donne lieu à une mise en scène somptueuse et extraordinaire, faisant appel à de riches décors, à plusieurs centaines d’acteurs, ainsi qu’à une cinquantaine de chevaux et cavalières.
La musique de Carlo Pallavicino épouse le texte à la perfection, soulignant tout autant les troubles de ces amazones confrontées à leurs sentiments – la complexité de leurs émotions se reflétant dans la riche palette expressive des airs et récitatifs de l’œuvre – que la magnificence de leur pouvoir guerrier au son des trompettes et timbales éclatantes.
Musique et théâtre ont charmé Jacques Chassebras de Cramailles, qui écrit dans le Mercure Galant en décembre 1679 : « On vit le plus étonnant et le plus pompeux spectacle dont on a jamais parlé… merveilleux spectacle qui semble être moins un opéra qu’un enchantement ».

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Le Amazzoni nell’isole fortunate is a dramma per musica in a prologue and three acts that was composed in 1679 by Carlo Pallavicino (c1630–88) for the official opening of the private theatre run by a Venetian procurator, Marco Contarini, in Piazzola sul Brenta near Padua. It received its first performance on 11 November 1679 in the presence of a hand-picked audience made up of members of the Venetian nobility and numerous foreign ambassadors. So successful did it prove that reports soon spread to the rest of Europe.

The libretto by Francesco Maria Piccioli tells of the amorous intrigues set in motion by the arrival of a shipwrecked sailor on the island that is home to the Amazons. The sailor is none other than Anapiet, a spy on the payroll of the king of the Egyptians, Sultan, who plans to lay siege to these female warriors and ultimately marry their queen, Pulcheria.

The work is not based on any particular myth or legend, still less on any historical facts but derives its inspiration from the world of the Amazon warriors that is found in various works ranging from the writings of Diodorus Siculus and Federico Della Valle to Vivaldi’s opera Ercole su’l Termodonte, which had reached Venice a year earlier. As such, the work was far in advance of its times, foregrounding female characters and even taking seriously a same-sex relationship between two Amazon women, which it treats without irony or misrepresentation. Its libretto provides for an opulent and, indeed, exceptional staging that calls for elaborate sets, several hundred performers and some fifty horses and their female riders. Carlo Pallavicini’s music is in perfect alignment with the text, underscoring not only the confusion felt by the Amazons when confronted by their emotions, the complexity of which is reflected in the rich expressive palette of the score’s recitatives and arias, but also the splendour of their military power, which is summed up in the sound of trumpets and timpani. Both the music and the staging cast a spell over Jacques Chassebras, Seigneur de Cramailles, who wrote in the Mercure galant in December 1679: “This is the most astonishing and most magnificent spectacle ever to have been spoken of […] a marvellous spectacle that seems to be less of an opera than a form of sheer enchantment.”

English

Le amazzoni nell'isole fortunate by Pallavicino, De la (2022/2022), Regizat de către Nicola Raab,, Dirijor Christophe Rousset, Sanssouci, Potsdam, Germany

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