FULL ORLANDO (Handel) Madrid 2023 Anna Prohaska, Giulia Semenzato, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Florian Boesch
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Orlando
- Composer: Handel George Frideric aka Händel Georg Friedrich
- Libretto: unknown Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Real de Madrid, Spain
- Recorded: November 4, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Anna Prohaska, Giulia Semenzato, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Florian Boesch, Christophe Dumaux
- Conductor: Ivor Bolton
- Orchestra: Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Teatro Real
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs, essubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Orlando (HWV 31) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel written for the King’s Theatre in London in 1733. The Italian libretto was adapted from Carlo Sigismondo Capece’s L’Orlando after Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, which was also the source of Handel’s operas Alcina and Ariodante. More an artistic than a popular success at its first performances, Orlando is today recognised as a masterpiece.
The opera was first given at the King’s Theatre in London on 27 January 1733. There were 10 further performances and it was not revived. The first production since Handel’s lifetime was given at Halle, Handel’s birthplace, in 1922. A production staged by the Barber Institute of Fine Arts in Birmingham, England, in 1966, conducted by Anthony Lewis, with Janet Baker in the title role, brought the opera back to London for the first time in over two centuries with performances later the same year at Sadler’s Wells Theatre. The United States premiere of the opera was presented by the Handel Society of New York (HSNY) in a concert version on 18 January 1971 at Carnegie Hall with Rosalind Elias in the title role. The HSNY had made the first recording of the opera in 1970 in Vienna with a mostly different cast for RCA Red Seal Records. Peter Sellars directed the first staged production of the work in the United States at the American Repertory Theater on 19 December 1981. Countertenor Jeffrey Gall sang the title role and Craig Smith conducted.
As with all Baroque opera seria, Orlando went unperformed for many years, but with the revival since the 1960s of interest in Baroque music and historic performance practices, it has, along with most Handel operas, received numerous stagings both at festivals and in opera houses. Orlando was performed in London in abridged form in 1963 with Janet Baker in the title role.
Among other performances, the opera was staged at the Royal Opera House in London in 2003 (Bicket) and 2007 (Mackerras, with Bejun Mehta as Orlando), at Glimmerglass in 2003, Brussels in 2012, Amsterdam (in the Brussels staging) in 2014. and by San Francisco Opera in 2019.
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