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L'Egisto (opera)
L'Egisto (Aegisthus) is a 1643 opera in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli. It was designated as a favola dramatica musicale. The Italian libretto was by Giovanni Faustini, his second text for Cavalli.
It was first performed in Venice at the Teatro San Cassiano in 1643. Highly successful in its day, it was subsequently performed throughout Italy.
Based on a suggestion by Henry Prunières in 1913, it was long believed Cavalli's L'Egisto was performed under the auspices of Cardinal Mazarin in Paris in February 1646, but that work is now thought to have been the Roman opera L'Egisto, ovvero Chi soffre, speri by Virgilio Mazzocchi and Marco Marazzoli.
Cavalli's opera is rarely performed in modern times. The US premiere was given by The Santa Fe Opera on 1 August 1974, and it was performed in Stockholm in 1977. Its UK premiere was given by Scottish Opera at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow on 13 January 1982. The production was toured in 1982 and 1984. All of these productions used a modern edition by the conductor Raymond Leppard. Jane Glover, a specialist in 17th-century Venetian opera, gives the following description of Leppard's edition:
Leppard has awarded himself a fairly broad editorial licence: that is, he treats the surviving material rather like a lump of modeller's clay, and moulds it skilfully into alluring shapes to please modern audiencees. In so doing he departs considerably from original practice; but the results, in terms of music-theatre, are spectacularly successful.
The changes that Leppard makes fall into four main categories: restructuring, transposition, rescoring and (frankly) recomposition.
The opera was performed by the early music group Le Poème Harmonique, conducted by Vincent Dumestre, at the Opéra-Comique in Paris beginning on 1 February 2012. The orchestra included a continuo group of two harpsichords, three theorbos and a lirone, and a small orchestra of strings plus two flutes.
A new edition prepared and directed by Marcio da Silva was performed by HGO at The Cockpit Theatre, London in June 2021.
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L'Egisto (opera)
L'Egisto (Aegisthus) is a 1643 opera in a prologue and three acts by Francesco Cavalli. It was designated as a favola dramatica musicale. The Italian libretto was by Giovanni Faustini, his second text for Cavalli.
It was first performed in Venice at the Teatro San Cassiano in 1643. Highly successful in its day, it was subsequently performed throughout Italy.
Based on a suggestion by Henry Prunières in 1913, it was long believed Cavalli's L'Egisto was performed under the auspices of Cardinal Mazarin in Paris in February 1646, but that work is now thought to have been the Roman opera L'Egisto, ovvero Chi soffre, speri by Virgilio Mazzocchi and Marco Marazzoli.
Cavalli's opera is rarely performed in modern times. The US premiere was given by The Santa Fe Opera on 1 August 1974, and it was performed in Stockholm in 1977. Its UK premiere was given by Scottish Opera at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow on 13 January 1982. The production was toured in 1982 and 1984. All of these productions used a modern edition by the conductor Raymond Leppard. Jane Glover, a specialist in 17th-century Venetian opera, gives the following description of Leppard's edition:
Leppard has awarded himself a fairly broad editorial licence: that is, he treats the surviving material rather like a lump of modeller's clay, and moulds it skilfully into alluring shapes to please modern audiencees. In so doing he departs considerably from original practice; but the results, in terms of music-theatre, are spectacularly successful.
The changes that Leppard makes fall into four main categories: restructuring, transposition, rescoring and (frankly) recomposition.
The opera was performed by the early music group Le Poème Harmonique, conducted by Vincent Dumestre, at the Opéra-Comique in Paris beginning on 1 February 2012. The orchestra included a continuo group of two harpsichords, three theorbos and a lirone, and a small orchestra of strings plus two flutes.
A new edition prepared and directed by Marcio da Silva was performed by HGO at The Cockpit Theatre, London in June 2021.
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