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Argippo - ABGESAGT
Opera pasticcio in three acts (1730)
Music by Antonio Vivaldi
Libretto by Domenico Lalli
Concert performance in Italian
Monday, March 22, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
He was a priest but devoted himself exclusively to music, played twice for the Pope and was accompanied on his travels by the young singer Anna Girò. Antonio Vivaldi remains a mystery two and a half centuries after his death. At the height of his career he was a European celebrity and died forgotten by the music world in Vienna in 1741, where he was buried on the Spitaller Gottsacker in front of the Kärntnertor. Vivaldi was unknown as an opera composer in the 19th century; the first dozen Vivaldi operas were not rediscovered until 1926. He himself claimed in a letter to have composed 94 operas, of which fifty were known by 2006, but only sixteen had been completely found. The opera Argippo, which Vivaldi wrote for Vienna and Prague in 1730, was also believed to have been lost. Only the German translations of the libretti for both performances have survived. In 2006, the Czech conductor Ondrej Macek found arias from Argippo in the Thurn und Taxis archive in Regensburg, Bavaria, which were recognized by the scientific commission of the Italian Antonio Vivaldi Institute in Venice. In 2008 the first performance of the reconstructed version of Argippo took place and another work was added to the Vivaldi opera catalog. In the Darmstadt University Library, the German musicologist Rashid-Sascha Pegah found a completely preserved, unmarked score of a three-act opera, which turned out to be an Argippo pasticcio with at least six Vivaldi arias. The libretto, which has been adapted several times, originally came from Domenico Lalli for Venice in 1717 and deals with an exotic love story from distant India, with which Venice traded and whose mogul Aurangzeb died in 1707. Zanaida, the daughter of the Indian mogul, feels betrayed by her former lover, whom she takes to be the Bengali king Argippo. On the verge of suicide, she looks forward to a visit to Argippos with his wife Osira. In fact, however, Zanaida was seduced by the courtly adviser Silvero, who pretended to be Argippo and who is therefore also plagued by guilt.
Subject to changes.
Music by Antonio Vivaldi
Libretto by Domenico Lalli
Concert performance in Italian
Monday, March 22, 2021, 7:00 p.m.
He was a priest but devoted himself exclusively to music, played twice for the Pope and was accompanied on his travels by the young singer Anna Girò. Antonio Vivaldi remains a mystery two and a half centuries after his death. At the height of his career he was a European celebrity and died forgotten by the music world in Vienna in 1741, where he was buried on the Spitaller Gottsacker in front of the Kärntnertor. Vivaldi was unknown as an opera composer in the 19th century; the first dozen Vivaldi operas were not rediscovered until 1926. He himself claimed in a letter to have composed 94 operas, of which fifty were known by 2006, but only sixteen had been completely found. The opera Argippo, which Vivaldi wrote for Vienna and Prague in 1730, was also believed to have been lost. Only the German translations of the libretti for both performances have survived. In 2006, the Czech conductor Ondrej Macek found arias from Argippo in the Thurn und Taxis archive in Regensburg, Bavaria, which were recognized by the scientific commission of the Italian Antonio Vivaldi Institute in Venice. In 2008 the first performance of the reconstructed version of Argippo took place and another work was added to the Vivaldi opera catalog. In the Darmstadt University Library, the German musicologist Rashid-Sascha Pegah found a completely preserved, unmarked score of a three-act opera, which turned out to be an Argippo pasticcio with at least six Vivaldi arias. The libretto, which has been adapted several times, originally came from Domenico Lalli for Venice in 1717 and deals with an exotic love story from distant India, with which Venice traded and whose mogul Aurangzeb died in 1707. Zanaida, the daughter of the Indian mogul, feels betrayed by her former lover, whom she takes to be the Bengali king Argippo. On the verge of suicide, she looks forward to a visit to Argippos with his wife Osira. In fact, however, Zanaida was seduced by the courtly adviser Silvero, who pretended to be Argippo and who is therefore also plagued by guilt.
Subject to changes.
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