Francesco Cavalli, a natural successor to Monteverdi, was the most famous and influential Italian opera composer during the mid-17th century. Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister to the king, commissioned Cavalli to create a Parisian spectacle to celebrate the wedding of the ‘Sun King’ Louis XIV and the Infanta of Spain. Ercole amante (‘Hercules in Love’) was the flattering subject chosen for this regal extravaganza combining larger-than-life characters with mythology, and genuine human emotions with natural and cosmic phenomena. The result is a sumptuous Baroque spectacle, conceived on a vast scale in this lavish production by directors Valerie Lesort and Christian Hecq.
Directed by François Roussillon
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Clipercole amante - Pygmalion
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Cast
Nahuel Di Pierro
Ercole
Giuseppina Bridelli
Deianira
Ray Chenez
Il Paggio
Francesca Aspromonte
Iole
Eugénie Lefebvre
Pasithea / Clerica / Terza Grazia / Secondo Pianeta
Dominique Visse
Licco
Giulia Semenzato
Venere / Bellezza / Cinzia
Luca Tittoto
Nettuno / Eutyro
Krystian Adam
Hyllo
Anna Bonitatibus
Giunone
Ensemble Pygmalion
Choeur et Orchestre
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