Antonio Vivaldi composed opera for Italian theaters for some three decades, often in connection with the Carnival season observed right before Lent. Not only did he write a lot of operas, he composed a great many opera arias and was not above revisiting an aria from a past effort and dressing it up anew for a subsequent one. A sobering amount of opera arias extant from Vivaldi's pen exist for which musicologists have no idea -- and will likely never know -- what stage works they were intended for. One of these, the lovely ...
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Antonio Vivaldi composed opera for Italian theaters for some three decades, often in connection with the Carnival season observed right before Lent. Not only did he write a lot of operas, he composed a great many opera arias and was not above revisiting an aria from a past effort and dressing it up anew for a subsequent one. A sobering amount of opera arias extant from Vivaldi's pen exist for which musicologists have no idea -- and will likely never know -- what stage works they were intended for. One of these, the lovely "La Farfalletta Audace" (Bold Little Butterfly) is heard for the first time, along with four other recording premieres, on Archiv's Amor Profano featuring soprano Simone Kermes as supported by the Venice Baroque Orchestra under Andrea Marcon. The theme behind the collection focuses on Vivaldi's settings that deal with affairs of the heart, a subject that as an ordained priest he wasn't expected know much about, but from the gory details of Vivaldi's biography, we are aware that he...
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