FULL VENUS AND ADONIS (Blow) Egham 2023 Raven Opera Company
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Venus and Adonis
- Composer: Blow John
- Libretto: Aphra Behn Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Royal Holloway Chapel, Egham, England, Raven Opera Company
- Recorded: March 24, 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: unknown
- Conductor: unknown
- Orchestra: The Raven Chamber Orchestra
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Raven Opera Company
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Quote from Wikipedia:
Venus and Adonis is an opera in three acts and a prologue by the English Baroque composer John Blow, composed in about 1683. It was written for the court of King Charles II at either London or Windsor Castle. It is considered by some to be either a semi-opera or a masque, but The New Grove names it as the earliest known English opera.
The author of the libretto was surmised to have been Aphra Behn due to the feminist nature of the text, and that she later worked with Blow on the play The Luckey Chance.[1] However, according to the musicologist Bruce Wood, in his 2008 critical edition of the work for the Purcell Society, the librettist “has been identified by James Winn as Anne Kingsmill, subsequently married as Anne Finch”.[citation needed] The story is based on the Classical myth of Venus and Adonis, which was also the basis for Shakespeare’s poem Venus and Adonis, as well as Ovid’s poem of the same name in his Metamorphoses.