This anthology is the result of a collaboration between the mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and conductor Alan Curtis. Comprising works by well-known composers such as Handel and Vivaldi alongside such l...
The surviving second and third acts of Catone in Utica, one of Metastasio's most dramatic libretti, premiered in Verona in the spring of 1737 in a setting by Vivaldi, contain some of his finest, most...
Il Ritorno D'Ulisse In Patria' (The Return Of Ulysses), was first performed in Venice in 1640. Its stature among dramatic works of the seventeenth century has grown considerably and is now one of the...
La Naissance d'Osiris, opera-ballet by Rameau to a libretto by Louis de Cahusac, Fontainebleau, 12 October 1754, written to celebrate the birth of the Duc de Berry, who became Louis XVI. DRAMATIS PER...
The Coronation Of Poppea. An opera in a prologue and three acts. Text by G. F. Busenello, music attributed to Claudio Monteverdi and Francesco Sacrati. Edited by Alan Curtis and English singing versio...
