Name: Acis and Galatea
Start: 2013-03-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2013-03-25T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater an der Wien

Organization

Soprano

Nuria Rial

Galatea

Controtenore

Lawrence Zazzo

Basso

Andrew Foster-Williams

Polifemo

Direzione d'orchestra

Paul Goodwin

Carolyn Sampson

Cloris

Eurilla

Contralto

Hilary Summers

Filli

Tenore

Michael Feyfar

Silvio

MusikTheater an der Wien

Mezzosoprano

Dorinda

Others

Basel Chamber Orchestra

Orchestra

kammerorchesterbasel

Raphael Jud Benoît Haller

inglese

italiano

Acis and Galatea -  (Aci e Galatea)

Vienna

Austria

Theater an der Wien

Public

Aci e Galatea

Approvato

Concert performance in English and Italian The love story between the sea nymph Galateia and the shepherd Akis comes from Greek mythology and is already the subject of Ovid's Metamophoses. The plot is simple: Acis and Galatea love each other. However, Polifemo, a one-eyed cyclops, is also in love with Galatea and desires her. Out of resentment, he breaks off a mountain peak and kills Acis with it. With divine help, Galatea transforms her Acis into a river, which from now on delights all other shepherds with babbling.
Handel's Acis fabric is also based on this ancient story. The economically thinking composer edited
his two existing Acis settings and even combines English and Italian here. This creates a pasticcio-like mixed form in this work, which is rarely performed today, which is neither an opera nor an oratorio. Handel himself decidedly calls this version Serenata.

English

Aci e Galatea by Händel, Da (2013/2013), Direttore d'orchestra Paul Goodwin, Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria

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