FULL POMPEO MAGNO (Cavalli) Bayreuth 2025 Max Emanuel Cenčić, Mariana Flores, Valerio Contaldo, Sophie Junker, Valer Sabadus, Marcel Beekman

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Pompeo Magno  
• Composer: Cavalli Francesco   
• Libretto: Nicolò Minato    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Margravial Opera House Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany, Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival  
• Recorded: September 12, 2025
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Max Emanuel Cencic, Mariana Flores, Valerio Contaldo, Alois Mühlbacher, Nicolò Balducci, Sophie Junker, Victor Sicard, Nicholas Scott, Valer Sabadus, Jorge Navarro Colorado, Dominique Visse, Kacper Szelążek, Marcel Beekman
• Conductor: Leonardo García-Alarcón   
• Orchestra: Cappella Mediterranea  
• Stage Director: Max Emanuel Cencic  
• Stage Designer: Helmut Stürmer  
• Costume Designer: Corina Gramosteanu  
• Lighting Designer: Léo Petrequin  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: BR-KLASSIK, ARD Klassik, ARTE  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Pompeo Magno (‘Pompeius Magnus’, ‘Pompey the Great’) is an opera in three acts by Francesco Cavalli. It was designated as a dramma per musica. The Italian libretto was by Nicolò Minato.

  he great military leader Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompeo Magno) has returned victorious to Rome after his third campaign and is given a hero’s welcome by the grandees of the realm and by Caesar himself. But this is not the time to rest on his laurels, for a secret war, this time without the strident alarums of battle, is being fought behind closed doors at the Roman court, waged between love, desire, treachery and jealousy: Sesto, Pompeo’s son, desires the beautiful prisoner of war Issicratea, not realising she is the wife of the supposedly dead Mitridate, an adversary of the great Pompeo. But Mitridate is alive and well, living incognito in Rome, where he tests the faithfulness of his wife and the loyalty of his son Farnace. Pompeo himself is in love with Caesar’s daughter Giulia, who has already promised her heart to Servilio. The feared conqueror must now prove himself as a sensitive human being as well …

  Taking centre stage of the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2025 is the scenic production of Francesco Cavalli’s incandescent opera about confusion and intrigue Pompeo Magno. First performed in 1666 at the Teatro San Salvatore in Venice, the works stands at the apex of the early history of opera, in which all elements shaping the contemporary art of music theatre are consummately interwoven as a densely compact and multifaceted drama. Tragic is juxtaposed to comic, profound emotions interchange with droll grotesquerie. Max Emanual Cenci stages this colourful drama with its rich diversity of characters from the merry and inebriated Carnival season and the commedia dell’arte with scintillating ideas and at a dashing pace. At his side he has a top class ensemble of singers and the Cappella Mediterranea under Leonardo García-Alarcón as a team of specialists in the music of the Italian seicento.

   

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