Name: La stellidaura vendicante
Start: 2014-10-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2014-10-23T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater an der Wien

Admin

Organization

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Raffaella Milanesi

Stellidaura

Tenor

Adrian Strooper

Armidoro

Carlo Allemano

Orismondo

Bass

Luigi De Donato

Giampetro

Countertenor

Hagen Matzeit

Armillo

Conductor

Alessandro De Marchi

Libretto

Andrea Perrucci

MusikTheater an der Wien

Orchestra

L'Academia Montis Regalis

Italian

La stellidaura vendicante -  (The Vengeful Star)

Vienna

Austria

Theater an der Wien

The Vengeful Star

Approved

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

English

The Vengeful Star by Provenzale, From (2014/2014), Conductor Alessandro De Marchi, Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues