In earlier years the Bayreuth Baroque Pageant has exhumed as its centerpiece a uncommon 18th century work, however for the 2025 version subsequent month it reaches again to 1666 for Cavalli’s opera Pompeo Magno which Chris’s Cache affords in a BBC studio efficiency from fifty years in the past led by Denis Stevens with the marvelous countertenor Paul Esswood within the title position.
Earlier this summer season the Aix-en-Provence Pageant offered the bawdy La Calisto, Cavalli’s hottest work which, like L’Ormindo earlier than it, was given its first fashionable efficiency on the Glyndebourne Pageant in a luxurious realization by Raymond Leppard.
At this time’s Pompeo could sound acquainted to those that know Leppard’s Glyndebourne recordings because it too has been fleshed out with lush orchestral accompaniment. They could sound puzzlingly anachronistic to fashionable ears used to HIP (historically-informed efficiency apply) interpretations however I retain an awesome fondness for that strategy. You’ll be able to hearken to dwell efficiency of L’Ormindo led by Leppard right here.
We’re significantly lucky that Peter Corridor’s scrumptious manufacturing of the Leppard Calisto starring Janet Baker, Ileana Cotrubas, James Bowman, and Hugues Cuénod was filmed at Glyndebourne.
The upcoming Bayreuth performances of Pompeo Magno by Cappella Mediterranea, led by its founder Leonard Garcia Alarcón, will little doubt function a smaller band of devices and 5 countertenors, in comparison with only one for Stevens. The opera will later be carried out in live performance in Paris and Vienna.
Primarily based on earlier years, Pompeo, one in all Cavalli’s rarest works, will likely be streamed throughout or shortly after the pageant which has been exemplary in protecting accessible at no cost a lot of its content material over time. Many Bayreuth Baroque streams can be found on its web site.
Cavalli: Pompeo Magno
Issicratea: Elizabeth Simon
Giulia: Ursula Connors
Delfo/First Prince: Shirley Minty
Arpalia/Servilio: Jennifer Smith
Sesto/Third Prince: Patricia Clark
Atrea/Crasso: Edgar Fleet
Pompeo Magno: Paul Esswood
Mitridate/Second Prince: Nigel Rogers
Farnace: Robert Jones
Cesare/Fourth Prince: John Noble
Claudio: Anthony Rolfe Johnson
Accademia Monteverdiana
Conductor: Denis Stevens
BBC
1975
Broadcast
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