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Opera in Concert • Piramo e Tisbe

Intermezzo tragico in two acts

DATE

  • 22 May 2010, 18:30

PROGRAMME

JOHANN ADOLPH HASSE Piramo e Tisbe
Intermezzo tragico in two parts

INFORMATION

Libretto by Marco Coltellini

In Italian

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PERFORMERS

Fabio Biondi, Conductor
Vivica Genaux, Piramo
Desirée Rancatore, Tisbe
Emanuele D'Aguanno, The Father
Europa Galante

ABOUT THE PRODUCTION

Johann Adolph Hasse studied composition in Naples with Nicola Porpora and Alessandro Scarlatti – and went on to become one of the most important composers of the Neapolitan School. The setting of the tragic love story of Pyramus and Thisbe, who were not allowed to see each other due to their parents’ rivaly, is one of Hasse’s most artful compositions, which he himself considered one of his best – and with which he gradually began to approach the reformed opera genre.



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