FULL L’ELICE (Ziani) Olomouc 2019 Hana Holodňáková, Helena Kalambová, Martin Ptáček, Jiří Poláček
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: L’Elice
- Composer: Ziani Pietro Andrea
- Libretto: Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Umělecké centrum Univerzity Palackého, Olomouc Baroque Festival
- Recorded: July 2019
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Hana Holodňáková, Helena Kalambová, Martin Ptáček, Jiří Poláček, Vincenc Ignác Novotný, Isabella Shaw, Rostislav Baláž
- Conductor: Tomáš Hanzlík
- Orchestra: Ensemble Damian
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Ivo Zatloukal
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Pietro Andrea Ziani (1616 in Venice – 1684 in Naples) was an Italian organist and composer. He was the uncle of Marc’Antonio Ziani. Beginning in 1669, he was the organist at St Mark’s Basilica and later moved on to serve Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg in Vienna.[2] His works included “L’Assalone punito” (1667) and the operas “La ricreazione burlesca” (1663), “L’invidia conculcata della virtù, merito, virtù, merito, valore di Leopoldo imperatore” (1664), “Cloridea” (1665), “Circe” (1665), “L’Elice” (1666) and “La Galatea” (1667).
A comic opera with elements of commedia dell´arte composed for the birthday of Emperor Leopold I’s mother loosely deals with the myth of the Kallisto nymph, who is renamed Elice in this piece. As Diana’s partner, she was to remain chaste and renounce other lovers. Her father, King Lycaon, kept careful tabs on her. Jupiter himself tries to seduce her disguised as a courtier. When the unsuspecting king tries to drive him away with a javelin, he misses and is transformed into a wolf. Diana turns the sinful Elice into a bear. Jupiter takes advantage of this metamorphosis in his own way and takes his mistress into the heavens as a constellation. At the end of the opera, the emperor’s sisters danced ballet to music by Johann Heinrich Schmelzer preserved in Kroměříž.