Armida - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Armida
Dramma per musica in three acts (1771)
Music by Antonio Salieri
Libretto by Marco Coltellini
Concert performance in Italian
Friday, February 19, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Armida, the beautiful niece of the ruler of Damascus, stimulated the imagination of composers of the 18th century like no other sorceress. In Torquato Tasso's knight epic La Gerusalemme liberata, Armida was commissioned by her uncle to prevent the crusaders from conquering Jerusalem with all the magical and female arts at their disposal. In Handel's Rinaldo, she is the main female character as well as in Vivaldi's Armida al campo d’Egitto. Jean-Baptiste Lully and Christoph Willibald Gluck put the sorceress on the Parisian opera stage, Luigi Cherubini and Gioachino Rossini gave her her Italian form, and Antonín Dvořák wrote his last opera Armida in Czech in 1904 for the Prague National Theater. In Vienna in 1771 a young Italian composer also turned to the subject and composed his first major opera for the Burgtheater at the age of twenty. Originally from the Republic of Venice, Antonio Salieri was to quickly pursue a career at the Viennese court and become one of the most important players in Viennese musical life of his time, but historically always remained hidden by Mozart's shadow. Salieri's librettist Marco Coltellini reduced the plot to three main characters ...
Subject to changes.
Music by Antonio Salieri
Libretto by Marco Coltellini
Concert performance in Italian
Friday, February 19, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
Armida, the beautiful niece of the ruler of Damascus, stimulated the imagination of composers of the 18th century like no other sorceress. In Torquato Tasso's knight epic La Gerusalemme liberata, Armida was commissioned by her uncle to prevent the crusaders from conquering Jerusalem with all the magical and female arts at their disposal. In Handel's Rinaldo, she is the main female character as well as in Vivaldi's Armida al campo d’Egitto. Jean-Baptiste Lully and Christoph Willibald Gluck put the sorceress on the Parisian opera stage, Luigi Cherubini and Gioachino Rossini gave her her Italian form, and Antonín Dvořák wrote his last opera Armida in Czech in 1904 for the Prague National Theater. In Vienna in 1771 a young Italian composer also turned to the subject and composed his first major opera for the Burgtheater at the age of twenty. Originally from the Republic of Venice, Antonio Salieri was to quickly pursue a career at the Viennese court and become one of the most important players in Viennese musical life of his time, but historically always remained hidden by Mozart's shadow. Salieri's librettist Marco Coltellini reduced the plot to three main characters ...
Subject to changes.
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