Contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux sings the title role, with mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore as Alcina and soprano Verónica Cangemi as Angelica. On World of Opera, host Lisa Simeone presents a production of Vivaldi's opera from the Champs-Elysées Theatre in Paris featuring a top-notch cast. Vivaldi set the story to some of his finest music, in a score filled with dazzling arias and showcasing some of the most expressive recitatives found in any Baroque opera. While the poem presents a number of different stories and episodes, the opera deals with the epic's main plot line - the tale of the knight Orlando, who falls in love with the wrong woman and promptly loses his marbles. A literal translation of the title might be 'Crazy Orlando,' and that pretty much fits the bill.

Vivaldi's Orlando Furioso premiered in 1727 in Venice.

In the next century, Rossini and Haydn also wrote Orlando -based operas. Handel wrote three operas derived from Ariosto's masterpiece, starting with Orlando in 1733. The new form of theater gave Ariosto's story a new lease on life that it still enjoys today - while the original poem and its creator have faded into literary history.Īriosto's epic began inspiring operas in the 1620s, and dozens of composers have since climbed onto the Orlando bandwagon. But the poet died in 1533, so he wasn't around to benefit some 60 years later, when a group of inventive writers and musicians in Italy joined forces to create the genre we call opera. It was an immediate hit and it made Ariosto famous - at least for a while. OL15824769W Page_number_confidence 89.22 Pages 588 Partner Innodata Ppi 300 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20200325093752 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 1073 Scandate 20200324132410 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Tts_version 3.In 1516, Ariosto came up with an epic poem called Orlando Furioso, filled with passion, violence, mystery and magic. Urn:lcp:orlandofurioso0000unse:epub:734a90f8-791b-4fd9-821a-99ea752aec0b Foldoutcount 0 Identifier orlandofurioso0000unse Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0fv76951 Invoice 1652 Lccn 68025515 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Old_pallet IA17395 Openlibrary_edition Bartlett, editor Boxid IA1798718 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Col_number COL-609 Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:02:15 Associated-names West, Rebecca J., 1946- former owner Rose, William Stewart, 1775-1843, translator Baker, Stewart A., editor Giamatti, A.

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