La Dori

La Dori, ovvero Lo schiavo reggio

Opera tragicomica in tre atti

Libretto di Giovanni Filippo Apolloni

Details:

Cast:

Francesca Ascioti, alto – Dori (Ali)
Emöke Baráth, soprano – Tolomeo, Celinda
Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, soprano – Arsinoe
Rupert Enticknap, counter tenor – Oronte
Federico Sacchi, bass – Artaxerse
Bradley Smith, tenor – Arsete
Alberto Allegrezza, tenore – Dirce
Pietro di Bianco, baritone – Erasto
Rocco Cavalluzzi, bass – Golo
Konstantin Derri, counter tenor – Bagoa

Ottavio Dantone – conductor

Accademia Bizantina

Recorded at Innsbrucker Festwochen del Alten Musik in Innsbruck, Austria, on August 22nd, 24th and 26th, 2019.

Label: CPO.

Reviews:

It contains some of the finest operatic music to have been composed in the course of the entire 17th century, and Dantone and the Accademia Bizantina do it proud. Capitalising on the work’s origins in a princely setting, they opt for a more expansive approach to instrumentation...In all, a fine achievement

this is an ensemble triumph, pointed with razor-sharp diction and vividly projected under Ottavio Dantone’s ideally-paced reading.

this is one of the most musically and dramatically satisfying recordings of a Venetian opera available