Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade - Finale

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Uploaded by on Dec 12, 2008

Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)

L'Olimpiade (1784)
Dramma per musica in 2 acts

Libretto: Pietro Metastasio
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First performance: Vicenza, 1784.
CLISTENE - Matteo Babini
ARISTEA - Franziska Danzi Lebrun (picture at 2:59)
ARGENE - Rosa Rota
LICIDA - Giuseppe Benigni
MEGACLE - Luigi Marchesi (picture at 3:14)
AMINTA - Giuseppe Desirò

Cast in Venice in 2001:
CLISTENE - Luigi Petroni - tenor
ARISTEA - Patrizia Ciofi - soprano
ARGENE - Ermonela Jaho - soprano
LICIDA - Laura Brioli - mezzo
MEGACLE - Anna Bonitatibus - mezzo
AMINTA - Bruno Lazzaretti - tenor

Stereo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA4GwfzBuSo&fmt=18

Pictures appear during the final chorus in the same order as the characters stand in the libretto + the conductor.

Conductor: Andrea Marcon
Orchestra Barocca di Venezia

Live recording (2001)

Playlist with other clips from this opera:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A84A6883B1194BBF

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  • Are they using a fortepiano as continuo?!

  • Yes.

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  • Ho appena finito di ascoltare tutta la Playlist... una delizia dopo l'altra... e non conoscevo l'aria Nel lasciarti, o prence amato...

    GRAZIE!!!

  • Great opera from the 1780s!!!

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  • Brrava Madame!

  • Immenso Cimarosa. Tra l'altro, ottima esecuzione che rivela una profonda e sensibile conoscenza della prassi esecutiva dell'epoca.

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