Watching linked videos is only available to logged-in DONORS
Become a donor for as little as 10 Swiss Francs (~ 13$) for website lifetime
and get AD-FREE too.
DONATE HERE
FULL PSICHE (Fux) Graz 2021 Carlotta Colombo, Monica Piccinini, Raffaele Pe, Christopher Ainslie
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Psiche. Componimento da Camera per musica
- Composer: Johann Joseph Fux with additional music by Antonio Caldara
- Libretto: Apostolo Zeno Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Schloss Eggenberg, Graz, Austria, Festivals Styriarte
- Recorded: June 26, 2021
- Type: Staged Opera Live
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Venus wants to get rid of the beautiful Psyche and sends Cupid to destroy her. But he falls in love with her. The secret affair has one problem: Psyche is not allowed to see her super lover. She does not abide by this rule and the drama starts.
Alfredo Bernardini is conducting his fourth opera by Johann Joseph Fux at the Styriarte festival: Psiche, an especially dramatic score from 1720. Love and lust, desire and despair, jealousy and clemency all add to the thrilling story of beautiful Psyche, the bride of Amor (Cupid), who is almost destroyed by the machinations of Venus. Raffaele Pe and Monica Piccinini lead a brilliant quintet of soloists, enveloped in the opulent sound of the Zefiro orchestra and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Baroque opera with everything an audience could wish for on a wonderful summer evening.