Orontea is an opera in a prologue and three acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini (revised by Giovanni...
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these were La Dori (Innsbruck, 1657), Il pomo d'oro (Vienna, 1668) and Orontea (1656). Il pomo d'oro (The Golden Apple) was written for the wedding in...
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complete works, published in Vienna Pietro Cavalli – Jason Antonio Cesti – Orontea, premiered at the Teatro Santissimi Apostoli, in Venice, during Carnivale...
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launching her career. Her professional debut, in 1979, was as Amor in Orontea at the music festival in Batignano. She subsequently sang, in 1980, Alice...
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Ariosto's Orlando Furioso contains a country of warrior women, ruled by Queen Orontea; the epic describes an origin much like that in Greek myth, in that the...
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was Marc'Antonio Cesti, who still further reduced the orchestra, as in Orontea (1649) and Cesare amante (1651). He performed some operas for the emperor...
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Diapason d'or; Un événement Télérama (ffff)) Cesti – Cantatas Cesti – Orontea Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice (awards: Cannes Classical Awards) Grandi – Vulnerasti...
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Suisse, Lugano & I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, Erato - 2166112 Cesti: Orontea - Xavier Sabata (Alidoro), Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, Ivor...
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Poppea (1980) Stefano Landi: Il Sant' Alessio (1981) Pietro Antonio Cesti: Orontea (1982) Georg Friedrich Handel: Ariodante (1982) Pietro Antonio Cesti: Il...
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His most famous works are Giasone (set to music by Cavalli, 1649) and Orontea (set to music by Lucio, 1649 and Cesti, 1656), which were to become the...
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