Alessandro Scarlatti (Palermo 1660 – Naples 1725) is the father of music drama and of da capo aria (not to mention of Domenico, the cusp of Baroque keyboard creativity). He composed La Griselda with libretto by Apostolo Zeno, re-worked by an anonymous author – possibly the dedicatee Francesco Maria Ruspoli – and based on the final tale of Boccaccio’d Decameron (set between Sicily and Apulia). It was a very successful text, set to music by a number of composers: from Albinoni to Paër and Massenet. The opera was staged in 1721 in Rome’s Teatro Capranica with a cast of acclaimed castratos including Antonio Bernacchi, Giacinto Fontana known as “Il farfallino”, and Giovanni Carestini.
Presentations and meetings | Mettiamoci all’opera
Alberto Triola, Federico Maria Sardelli and Gianluca Falaschi presents L’Angelica by Porpora
Chiostro di S. Domenico, Martina Franca | Saturday, July 24nd h. 6:00 PM
The event is held in Italian
Locandina
Conductor Federico Maria Sardelli
Director, scenes and costumes Gianluca Falaschi
Choreographer Mattia Agatiello
Light designer Pasquale Mari
Orlando Teresa Iervolino
Medoro Paola Valentina Molinari
Angelica Ekaterina Bakanova
Licori Gaia Petrone
Titiro Sergio Foresti
Tirsi Barbara Massaro
La Lira di Orfeo
Fattoria Vittadini
Danilo Calabrese, Riccardo Esposito, Samuel Moretti, Valentina Squarzoni
Coproduction with Staatstheater Mainz
The opera is going to be broadcasted on July 30th on Rai Radio3
