Cavalli - Gli Amori Di Apollo E Di Dafne - Garrido, Ensemble Elyma

 

Release Date: November 4, 2008 Label: K617 Number of discs: 2 Composer: Francesco Cavalli Performer: Gabriel Garrido, Ensemble Elyma cd info/ buy

Review:

Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne (The Loves of Apollo and Daphne) is an opera by the Italian composer Francesco Cavalli. It was Cavalli's second operatic work and was premiered at the Teatro San Cassiano, Venice during the Carnival season of 1640. The libretto is by Giovanni Francesco Busenello and is based on the story of the god Apollo's love for the nymph Daphne as told in Ovid's Metamorphoses. At the dawn of opera in Venice, Monteverdi's pupil Cavalli and the poet G.F Busenello, created Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne. This fruitful collaboration inaugurated a cycle which, together with L’Incoronazione di Poppea, was to become emblematic of the new Venetian opera. The present recording spares no effort to recreate the magnificence that was to make Italian music the 'mistress’ of the world.

 

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