Name: La vaghezza del fato
Start: 2022-09-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-09-18T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Krumlov Castle

Organization

Festival of Baroque Arts

Conductor

Ondřej Macek

Stage director

Zuzana Vrbová

Orchestra

Hof-Musici Baroque Orchestra

La vaghezza del fato

Český Krumlov

Czech Republic

Krumlov Castle

La vaghezza del fato Viviani

Public

Private

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Contralto

Singer

Baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Bass-baritone

Tenor

Countertenor

Soprano

Bass

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Modern World Premiere
La Vaghezza del Fato
(Vagueness of Fate)

Libretto: Pietro Guadagni (Vienna 1672)

Premiere: Český Krumlov, Baroque Castle Theater, 16 – 18 September 2022.

Performed by: Hof-Musici Baroque Ensemble, stage director Zuzana Vrbová, directed from the harpsichord by Ondřej Macek.

With the staging of Viviani’s opera La Vaghezza di Fato we hope to introduce our audience to the works of another Baroque composer who was important at the time but has unfortunately faded into obscurity today.

Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani (1638 – cca 1692), violinist and composer, native of Florence. He wrote operas and oratorios for Venice, Rome, and Naples, but spent most of his life serving the Habsburgs in Innsbruck and Vienna. Alongside Antonio Cesti and Antonio Draghi, he is one of the most important representatives of Italian opera in Central Europe in the second half of the 17th century, at a time when Italian opera was only slowly beginning to cross north of the Alps.

Viviani’s La Vaghezza del Fato is the only surviving opera for the imperial court of Leopold I. Its style corresponds to the contemporary Venetian model, with a rich stage design and an adventurous plot brought to life by the antics of comical characters.

The circumstances of the origin and performance of this Viviani opera are interesting. According to surviving sources (the manuscript score and the manuscript of the libretto, stored in the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) – it was intended to be performed at the Imperial Court in Vienna during the Carnival of 1672. In January of that year, however, the newborn daughter of Leopold I, Maria Anna Antonia, died. The court mourning followed, with the cancellation of carnival pleasures, including the performance of the carnival opera. Viviani's La Vaghezza del Fato therefore was probably never performed, its libretto was not printed, and only its manuscript was stored in the emperor's music collection. Our performance of this opera will most likely be its world premiere.

Advanced tickets available at the Český Krumlov Information Centre.

English

La vaghezza del fato by Viviani, G. B., hAo 16 Meán 2022, Ó (2022/2022), Faoi stiúir Zuzana Vrbová,, Seoltóir Ondřej Macek, Krumlov Castle, Český Krumlov, Czech Republic

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Ensemble

Clár, Eolas & Achoimre

Grianghraif

Tuilleadh léitheoireachta

Dátaí & Ionaid Feidhmíochta

Ionaid