韋瓦第：歌劇《赫拉客勒斯在特摩東特》 Antonio Vivaldi: Ercole Su’l termodonte (DVD)【Dynamic】

Conductor: Alan Curtis 
Director, Set & Costume designer: John Pascoe 
Ercole: Zachary Stains 
Antiope Mary: Ellen Nesi 
Martesia: Laura Cherici 
Alceste: Luca Dordolo 
Ippolita: Marina Bartoli 
Teseo: Randall Scotting 
Telamone: Filippo Mineccia 
Diana: Mary Ellen Nesi 
Il Complesso Barocco 

Singers of great renown were called upon for the first performance of Ercole sul Termodonte by Antonio Vivaldi in Rome, ”in the hall of Signor Federico Capranica”, on 27th January 1723. An exclusively male singing cast, as was the custom on Roman stages, to tell the tale of the battle between Hercules, accompanied by the heroes Theseus, Telamon and Alceste, and the Amazons led by Antiope. The story, which is based on the ninth of the legendary labours of Hercules, and which concludes with the traditional happy ending here decreed by Diana, who proclaims the nuptial unions of Hippolyte with Theseus, prince of Athens, and of Martesia with Telamon, king of Ithaca, was arranged by the ”regular canon of La Carità of Venice” Don Giacomo Francesco Bussani, on a libretto that had already been performed in 1678 at the San Salvatore theatre in Venice. The opera was successful, winning appreciation and at the same time astonishment through its introduction of many passages written in a new ”manner”, with an exciting, incisive rhythmic gait. This style so excited the Romans that from then on they demanded it almost exclusively in melodramas. After the success of 1723, however, Ercole did not circulate widely and at a certain point the score was thought to have been lost. It has only recently been reassembled thanks to the precious rediscovery of some thirty arias and two duets in various archives, and has been reconstructed in its recitative passages by Alessandro Ciccolini. The daring direction of John Pascoe for the Spoleto Festival presents a statuary Hercules appearing on stage completely naked. On the podium, conducting the Complesso Barocco, an expert of the stature of Alan Curtis. Spoleto Festival 2006 

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編號：33525 
條碼：8007144335250 
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螢幕比：NTSC 16:9 
聲道：PCM 2.0, Dolby Digital 5.1 
字幕：法文、英文、義大利文、德文、西班牙文 
時間：136分鐘 
區碼：全區