Angelica

Composer: Porpora, Nicola

Librettist/Text Author: Metastasio, Pietro

Conductor: Sardelli, Federico Maria

Ensemble: Lira di Orfeo, La

Angelica: Bakanova, Ekaterina

Fattoria Vittadini: Calabrese, Danilo

Fattoria Vittadini: Esposito, Riccardo

Fattoria Vittadini: Moretti, Samuel

Fattoria Vittadini: Squarzoni, Valentina

Licori: Petrone, Gaia

Medoro: Molinari, Paola Valentina

Orlando: Iervolino, Teresa

Special extra: Gariglio, Federico

Tirsi: Massaro, Barbara

Titiro: Foresti, Sergio

Set Designer: Falaschi, Gianluca

Costume Designer: Falaschi, Gianluca

Lighting Designer: Mari, Pasquale

Choreographer: Agatiello, Mattia

Stage Director: Falaschi, Gianluca

Television Director: Scalfi, Marco

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Date of Production: 2021

Festival: Valle D'Itria Festival, Italy

Venue: Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca

Playing Time: 02:27:19

Catalogue Number: 37936

UPC: 8007144379360

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Nicola Porpora was a composer who helped to turn Italian opera into the most successful and spectacular genre in Europe. One of the few luminaries of the 'Neapolitan School' to actually be born in Naples, Porpora wrote L'Angelica, a serenade for six voices and instruments, to a libretto by the young Pietro Metastasio in 1720. The work was composed for the birthday of Empress Elizabeth Christine, wife of Charles VI, and its plot is comedic, focusing on the travails of a couple in love. The opera's success was immediate, resulting in the commissioning of further works that would lead to ever more glamorous successes for Porpora in Venice, London, Dresden and Vienna.