Ercole amante

Composer: Cavalli, Francesco

Librettist/Text Author: Buti, Francesco

Conductor: Pichon, Raphael

Orchestra: Pygmalion

Chorus: Pygmalion Chorus

Deianira: Bridelli, Giuseppina

Ercole: Pierro, Nahuel di

Giunone: Bonitatibus, Anna

Hyllo: Adam, Krystian

Il Paggio: Chenez, Ray

Iora: Aspromonte, Francesca

Licco: Visse, Dominique

Nettuno / Eutyro: Tittoto, Luca

Pasithea / Clerica / Terza Grazia / Secondo Pianeta: Lefebvre, Eugenie

Prima Aura: Coiffet, Olivier

Prima Grazia: Planinsek, Marie

Ruscello / Bussiride / Un Sacrificatore: Brooymans, Nicolas

Seconda Aura / Un Sacrificatore: Bres, Renaud

Seconda Grazia / Primo Pianeta: Devillers, Perrine

Terzo Pianeta: Bahuaud, Corinne

Un Sacrificatore: Goubet, Constantin

Venere / Bellezza / Cinzia: Semenzato, Giulia

Set Designer: Peduzzi, Laurent

Costume Designer: Sannino, Vanessa

Lighting Designer: Pinaud, Christian

Stage Director: Lesort, Valerie

Stage Director: Hecq, Christian

Television Director: Roussillon, Francois

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Date of Production: 11-2019

Venue: Opera Comique, Paris

Playing Time: 03:09:07

Catalogue Number: 2.110679-80

UPC: 747313567959

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Francesco Cavalli, a natural successor to Monteverdi, was the most famous and influential Italian opera composer during the mid-17th century. Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister to the king, commissioned Cavalli to create a Parisian spectacle to celebrate the wedding of the 'Sun King' Louis XIVand the Infanta of Spain. Ercole amante ('Hercules in Love') was the flattering subject chosen for this regal extravaganza combining larger-than-life characters with mythology, and genuine human emotions with natural and cosmic phenomena. The result is a sumptuous Baroque spectacle, conceived on a vast scale in this lavish production by directors Valerie Lesort and Christian Hecq.