Vivaldi : Dorilla in Tempe - Kiehr, Elwes, Cantor, Nirouet, Caroli, Florentin; Ensemble Baroque de Nice, G. Bezzina - 1994.

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

"Dorilla in Tempe"

Melodramma eroica pastorale en trois actes

Livret d'Antonio Maria Lucchini

Restitution : Gilbert Bezzina

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Dorilla (Dorilla) ---------------------- MARIA-CRISTINA KIEHR, soprano

Daughter of Admetus, in love with Elmira

Elmira (Elmiro) ---------------------------------------- JOHN ELWES, tenor

The shepherd, in love with Dorilla

Admetus (Admeto) ------------------------- PHILIPPE CANTOR, baritone

King of Thessaly, father Dorilla

Nomio (Nomio) --------------------------- JEAN NIROUET, counter-tenor

Shepherd (in fact it is Apollo), in love with Dorilla

Evdamiya (Eudamia) ---------------- CONSUELO CAROLI, mezzo-soprano

Nymph, in love with Elmira

Filindo (Filindo) ------------------------------ LAURE FLORENTIN, soprano

In love with Evdamiyu

Shepherds : 

(The first act, scene 1) --------------- JEAN NIROUET, LAURE FLORENTIN

(The first act, scene 12) -------------------------------- CORINNE PARENTI

Choir - CHOEURS DE L'OPERA DE NICE, choirmaster Errol CIRDLESTONE

ENSEMBLE BAROQUE DE NICE, conductor Gilbert BEZZINA

Year of Publication : 1994

Publisher (label) : Pierre Vernane

Record date : Oct 1993

Duration : 2 CDs : 74:25 + 73:37. Total 2:28:02

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The surviving score is of a 1734 pasticcio arranged by Vivaldi based on the 1726 version that includes 3 arias by Hasse ("Mi lusinga il dolce affetto", "Saprò ben con petto forte" & "Non ha più pace il cor amante"), 2 or 3 by Giacomelli ("Rete, lacci e strali adopta", "Non vo' ch'un'infedele" & by elimination, Strohm suggests "Bel piacer saria d'un core" -the text comes from Metastasio's Semiramide for which Giacomelli's original music (Milan 1730) is lost, & it's not from the Porpora or Vinci settings), 1 by Leo ("Vorrei da lacci sciogliere"), 1 by Sarri ("Se ostinata a me resisti"), and 4 other arias that may not have been composed by Vivaldi ("La speranza ch'in me sento", "Se al mio ben rivolgo il ciglio", "Come l'onde in mezzo al mar" & "Se amarti non poss'io"). The best of Bezzina's Vivaldi opera recordings. Highly recommended! (Reissued in April 2008)
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