Description
Il Farnace (Opera di Firenze) 2 DVD Set / Drama for music RV 711-G Libretto by ANTONIO MARIA LUCCHINI / ORCHESTRA OF THE FLORENTINE MUSICAL MAY / Conductor FEDERICO MARIA SARDELLI / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 151 Minutes
UPC: 8007144376703
- Aspect Ratio : 1.78:1
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 5.39 x 0.67 x 7.6 inches; 2.93 Ounces
- Director : Marco Gandini
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, NTSC, Classical
- Run time : 2 hours and 31 minutes
- Release date : June 30, 2015
- Actors : __
- Subtitles: : English, Italian, German, French, Japanese, Korean
- Studio : Dynamic
- Number of discs : 2
Il Farnace is the most re-written and re-proposed of Vivaldi's operas, it's like a beloved child who worries his father, and to whom the parent always wants to give the best. Versions of Farnace, two in 1727 and one each in 1730, 1731 and 1732, had been conceived and adapted to the different circumstances for Venice, Prague, Pavia and Mantua, always with a cast to Vivaldi's satisfaction and with the composer in control of the production. The greatest appreciation of Vivaldi's operatic music was expressed in a letter by a spectator of the 1727 Carnival season, the abbot Antonio Conti. He wrote to Madame de Caylus that of all the operas of the Venice season he liked best Farnace because its music was very varied, "between the sublime and the tender", and because Vivaldi's pupil worked wonders.
