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    Orontea is an opera in a prologue and three acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini (revised by Giovanni...
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  • these were La Dori (Innsbruck, 1657), Il pomo d'oro (Vienna, 1668) and Orontea (1656). Il pomo d'oro (The Golden Apple) was written for the wedding in...
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  • complete works, published in Vienna Pietro Cavalli – Jason Antonio Cesti – Orontea, premiered at the Teatro Santissimi Apostoli, in Venice, during Carnivale...
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    Ariosto's Orlando Furioso contains a country of warrior women, ruled by Queen Orontea; the epic describes an origin much like that in Greek myth, in that the...
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  • launching her career. Her professional debut, in 1979, was as Amor in Orontea at the music festival in Batignano. She subsequently sang, in 1980, Alice...
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    was Marc'Antonio Cesti, who still further reduced the orchestra, as in Orontea (1649) and Cesare amante (1651). He performed some operas for the emperor...
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    Suisse, Lugano & I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, Erato - 2166112 Cesti: Orontea - Xavier Sabata (Alidoro), Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester, Ivor...
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  • Poppea (1980) Stefano Landi: Il Sant' Alessio (1981) Pietro Antonio Cesti: Orontea (1982) Georg Friedrich Handel: Ariodante (1982) Pietro Antonio Cesti: Il...
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  • welcoming Queen Christina of Sweden on her journey to Rome. For Cesti's opera Orontea, performed in Innsbruck in 1656, Apolloni revised the original libretto...
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    Diapason d'or; Un événement Télérama (ffff)) Cesti – Cantatas Cesti – Orontea Gluck – Orfeo ed Euridice (awards: Cannes Classical Awards) Grandi – Vulnerasti...
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    husband, Peter Coleman-Wright, as Jupiter – Australian première 2022: Orontea (1656) by Antonio Cesti, Australian premiere 2023: Membra Jesu Nostri (1680)...
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    Italienne Orchestra and Chorus; Serge Baudo, conductor). Label: Forlane Cesti: Orontea (Bierbaum, Cadelo, Müller-Molinari, Reinhart, Jacobs, Poulenard, De Mey...
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    Jennifer Williams (November 2000). "'Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen': Cesti, Orontea, and the Gelone Problem", p. 205. Cambridge Opera Journal, Vol. 12, No...
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    Faculty. Past "Baroque Opera: Young" productions have included Cesti's Orontea, Lully's Armide, and a double-bill of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Blow's...
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  • His most famous works are Giasone (set to music by Cavalli, 1649) and Orontea (set to music by Lucio, 1649 and Cesti, 1656), which were to become the...
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  • Der Rattenfänger, Der Riese von Steinfeld Antonio Cesti (1623–1669): Orontea, Il pomo d'oro Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894): Briséïs, Une éducation manquée...
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    Jennifer Williams (November 2000). "'Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen': Cesti, Orontea, and the Gelone Problem", p. 205. Cambridge Opera Journal, Vol. 12, No...
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    Handel repertoire, Matthias Rexroth performed Corindo in Antonio Cesti's Orontea under Ivor Bolton (2014) at the Frankfurt opera, Nibbio in Giambattista...
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  • only) 1981 Anthologie D'airs de la Cour (2LP only) 1982 Antonio Cesti Orontea 3LP 1982 Schütz Kleine Geistliche Konzerte 1982 Luca Marenzio, Madrigaux...
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    Claudio Monteverdi, 1997 - La Calisto by Francesco Cavalli, and 1998 - Orontea by Antonio Cesti. During Wikman's tenure as music director, Music of the...
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  • Handel at EMI), Jordi Savall (Motets by Delalande), René Jacobs (Cesti's Orontea and Cavalli's Xerse at Harmonia Mundi). She played the role of Armida in...
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