Arianna (Marcello)

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Arianna (concert performance Venice, 1727, first fully staged performance Venice, 1913[1]) is an opera by the Venetian nobleman composer Benedetto Marcello to a libretto by Vincenzo Cassani, with contributions by Pietro Pariati.[2][3] The opera was recorded under Filippo Maria Bressan in 2000.[4]

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  1. ^ The Simon and Schuster book of the opera: a complete reference Riccardo Mezzanotte - 1979 ARIANNA (Ariadne) Music drama in two acts by Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739), libretto by Vincenzo Cassani. Composed in 1727. First stage performance: Venice, Liceo Benedetto Marcello, 27 April 1913. SYNOPSIS....
  2. ^ Gramophone ed. Christopher Stone - 2000 "Probably the most important of these aspects is that Marcello and his librettist Pietro Pariati would have expected their select audience not only to have known inside out the tale of Arianna, her desertion by Theseus and her subsequent ..."
  3. ^ Tragedy as encounter: Politics, intertextuality and modern Italian Jessica Leah Otey, University of California, Berkeley - 2008 Stelio is similarly inspired by the artistic powers of Donatella, who sings from Benedetto Marcello's opera Arianna (1717): Così, d'improvviso, nell'interno mondo dell'animatore si schiudevano le vie dei secoli prolungandosi per le ..."
  4. ^ Classic CD. 2000 ... MARCELLO new Arianna (c 1726-27) • Anna Chierichetti (Arianna); Gloria Banditelli (Fedra); Mirko Guadagnini ... Dating from c 1726-27, Arianna was written at the height of Marceilo's fame to a verse text by Vincenzo Cassani and "