If you thought composing somewhere around 500 concertos was an achievement, remember that Antonio Vivaldi also composed 49 operas. Indeed, Vivaldi probably thought of himself primarily as an opera composer -- with 67 productions in a career of 28 years, he may not have had a chance to think of himself as anything else. Yet, while Vivaldi is well known as a composer of concertos, he is hardly known as a composer of operas. In the Naïve Vivaldi Edition -- a comprehensive survey on 100 discs of the 450 works in Vivaldi's ...
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If you thought composing somewhere around 500 concertos was an achievement, remember that Antonio Vivaldi also composed 49 operas. Indeed, Vivaldi probably thought of himself primarily as an opera composer -- with 67 productions in a career of 28 years, he may not have had a chance to think of himself as anything else. Yet, while Vivaldi is well known as a composer of concertos, he is hardly known as a composer of operas. In the Naïve Vivaldi Edition -- a comprehensive survey on 100 discs of the 450 works in Vivaldi's library at the time of his death -- all 49 operas will appear; this recording of his Griselda is the sixth to be released. Written in 1735 for his protégée Anna Girò, Griselda takes a story from Boccaccio and turns it into a hymn of praise to nobility and constancy. Yet though the story is tired and true, Vivaldi's music is real and vibrant and as attractive as anything in his instrumental works. In this recording by Jean-Christophe Spinosi leading the Matheus Ensemble with Marie-Nicole...
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