PORPORA L’Angelica - Trailer [2021 Festival della Valle d'Itria]

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.

Available in DVD (37936)/ Blu-ray (57936) / CD (CDS7936.02)

Recording place: Palazzo Ducale, Festival della Valle d’Itria, Martina Franca, Italy
Recording date: 30th July / 3rd August 2021

Conductor: Federico Maria Sardelli
Director, Set and costumes designer: Gianluca Falaschi
Choreographer: Mattia Agatiello
Lights designer: Pasquale Mari
Assistant Director: Marco Fragnelli
Assistant Set designer: Giuditta Verderio
Assistant Costume designer: Nika Campisi
Assistant Lights designer: Gianni Bertoli

Orchestra: La Lira di Orfeo

Cast:
Orlando, Teresa Iervolino, mezzo-soprano
Medoro, Paola Valentina Molinari, soprano
Angelica, Ekaterina Bakanova, soprano
Licori, Gaia Petrone, mezzo-soprano
Titiro, Sergio Foresti, baritone
Tirsi, Barbara Massaro, soprano

Fattoria Vittadini: Danilo Calabrese, Riccardo Esposito, Samuel Moretti, Valentina Squarzoni
Special extra: Federico Gariglio

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