La Dori

Composer: Cesti, Antonio

Librettist/Text Author: Apolloni, Giovanni Filippo

Conductor: Dantone, Ottavio

Ensemble: Accademia Bizantina

Arsete: Smith, Bradley

Arsinoe: Lombardi Mazzulli, Francesca

Artaserse: Sacchi, Federico

Dirce: Allegrezza, Alberto

Dori: Ascioti, Francesca

Erasto: Bianco, Pietro Di

Oronte: Enticknap, Rupert

Tolomeo: Barath, Emoke

Set Designer: Sinisi, Emanuele

Costume Designer: Heinreich, Annemarie

Lighting Designer: Kopp, Ralph

Choreographer: Vanelli, Pierluigi

Stage Director: Vizioli, Stefano

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Date of Production: 11-2020

Festival: Innsbruck Festival of Early Music

Playing Time: 02:44:19

Catalogue Number: 2.110676

UPC: 747313567652

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Pietro Antonio Cesti was one of the most outstanding champions of 17th-century Venetian opera, and La Dori was both his greatest success and a major influence on the genre in the expressiveness of its arias and duets. The story is set in Babylon on the shores of the Euphrates, and is a convoluted and richly tragicomedic tale of lost lovers, disguises and mistake identities filled with larger-than-life and colourfully costumed characters. This revival of a forgotten masterpiece was acclaimed as 'a production of the highest level in every aspect' (musicacultureaonline.it).