The Vengeful Star by Provenzale, čt 23 říj 2014, Od (2014/2014), Dirigent Alessandro De Marchi, Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria

Francesco Provenzale (~ 1624-1704) was the first known composer, musician and music teacher from Naples. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan School and thus a pioneer of Nicola Porpora, Leonardo Vinci and Johann Adolph Hasse. His only surviving stage works are the three-act melodramma Lo schiavo di sua moglie (1672; His wife's slave ) and the likewise three-act opera La Stellidaura vendicante(1674). The latter was presented to a wide audience by Alessandro De Marchi at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music in 2012 and recorded at harmonia mundi. The opera has both comic and tragic elements in its plot. Prince Orismondo and Armidoro, court knight and friend of the prince, are in love with the beautiful Stellidaura, she reciprocates Armidoro's love. The first encounter as a rival ends for Armidoro with an injury to his arm and is at the same time the beginning of the comical and clumsy mix-ups for which Orismondo's servant, Giampetro, who sings in the Old Calabrian dialect, is responsible. Ultimately, Stellidaura is said to be poisoned because of an attempted murder on Orismondo, but it is again Giampetro who accidentally (?) Only gives her a sleeping pill. At the end of the opera