FULL Semiramide (Cesti) Innsbruck 1987 Anselmi Gall Verschaeve Van der Kamp

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Semiramide  
• Composer: Cesti Pietro Marc'Antonio   
• Libretto: Giovanni Andrea Moniglia    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck, Austria, Festwoche der Alten Musik  
• Recorded: 1987
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Susanna Anselmi, Jeffrey Gall, Michel Verschaeve, Marinella Pennicchi, Silvana Manga, Gregory Reinhart, Wolfgang Holzmair, Gian Paolo Fagotto, Harry van der Kamp, Ian Honeyman
• Conductor: Alan Curtis  
• Orchestra: Il Complesso Barocco  
• Ballet: Hemiole, Paris  
• Choreographer: Ana Yepes  
• Stage Director: Mireille Larroche  
• Stage Designer: Marc Boisseau  
• Costume Designer: Marc Boisseau  
• Lighting Designer: Hans Wegleiter  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Festwoche der Alten Musik  
• TV Director: Hugo Käch  
• Date Published: 1987  
• Format: Broadcast
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Dramma per musica in three acts, on a libretto by Giovanni Andrea Moniglia (1624-1700). First performance: Vienna, Hoftheater, June 9, 1667.

  The work had been commissioned by Cardinal Leopold of Medici (1617-1675), son of the Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo II, on the occasion of the wedding of the Archduke of Tyrol Sigismund Francis. The latter having died in June 1665, she was not represented until two years later at the court of Vienna, on the occasion of the birthday of Emperor Leopold I.

  The reworked opera was also performed in Italy under the title La Schiava fortunata, or The Risembianze di Semiramide e Nino.

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