MONTEVERDI, CAVALLI: MAÎTRES ET ÉLÈVES

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Francesco Cavalli (1602-1676)
from the opera Eliogabalo, 1667:
Sinfonia
Eccomi d’huomo transformato in femina, act I, scene 14
Ò, che vaghi candori?, act I, scene 15

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Or che Seneca è morto, act II, scene 6
from the opera L’Incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308,
Venice, Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo, 1643

Francesco Cavalli
from the opera La Calisto, Venice, Sant’Apollinare, 1651:
Pazzi quei, ch’in Amor credono?, act II, scene 13
D’aver un consorte, act II, scene 14

Domenico Freschi (1634-1710)
from the opera Tullia superba, Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo, 1678:
Sinfonia
Al Porto de piaceri, act III, scene 3
Idoli miei vezzosi, act III, scene 4

Niso quest’è la bella, act I, scena 4
from the opera Olimpia vendicata, Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo, 1681

Antonio Sartorio (1630-1680)
from the opera Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Venice, Teatro San Salvatore, 1676:
Sesto, è d’uopo, ch’io vada, act II, scene 23
Belle dèe di questo core, act II, scene 24

Claudio Monteverdi
Vi ricorda, o bosch’ombrosi, act II, scene unica
from the opera L’Orfeo, SV 318, Mantua, Palazzo Ducale, 1607

Carlo Pallavicino (1630-1688)
from the opera Messalina, Venice, Teatro San Salvatore, 1679:
Sinfonia
Entro sì molli spoglie, act II, scene 19
Bella mia sei più sdegnosa, act II, scene 20

Giovanni Legrenzi (1626-1690)
from the opera Totila, Venice, Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo, 1677:
Lascia ò Tiranno, act I, scene 12
Ciel, per quai casi ignoti, act I, scene 13

Marc’Antonio Ziani (1653-1715)
from the opera Alessandro Magno in Sidone, Venice, Teatro SS. Giovanni e Paolo, 1679:
Sinfonia
Su’ letto di rose, act I, scene 1
Adorato mio Re, act I, scene 18

Pietro Andrea Ziani (1616-1684)
Incanto de fumi, act I, scene 1
from the opera Il Candaule, Venice, Teatro San Cassiano, 1679

Claudio Monteverdi
from the opera L’Incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308,
Naples, Biblioteca del Conservatorio S. Pietro a Majella, Rari 6, 4, 1:
Scendiamo, compagni alati, act III, scene 8
Pur ti miro, act III, scene 8

Monteverdi is undoubtedly the greatest Maestro of Italy in the seventeenth century. He gave life to the opera with the Orfeo in 1607. Unfortunately, all his subsequent works have been lost, until Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria, written in Venice in 1640. Cavalli, who studied with Monteverdi, would later write some of the most brilliant Venetian operas. Subsequently, Freschi, Sartorio, Ziani, Legrenzi… have continued in the footsteps of Monteverdi and Cavalli in this great tradition of Venetian opera. In this concert a brief history of Venetian opera is outlined, focusing attention on the two operas created by Monteverdi, as well as on some jewels by Ziani, Freschi and Sartorio that have not been performed since the seventeenth century.