L'Olimpiade: The Opera

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Within individual numbers the performances can be thrilling...the band nimbly negotiates the huge range of effects demanded by this composite score...Franziska Gottwald is spellbinding in Vivaldi's... — BBC Music Magazine More…

Release Date: 8th May 2012
Catalogue No: V5295
Label: Naive
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

23rd July 2012

Leo: L'olimpiade

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Venice Baroque Orchestra
Markellos Chryssicos

L'olimpiade: Sinfonia

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Hasse, J A: L'Olimpiade

Work length7:00

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Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Markellos Chryssicos

L'Olimpiade, Act I: Superbo di me stesso

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Galuppi: L’Olimpiade

Work length5:19

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Franziska Gottwald (mezzo-soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Markellos Chryssicos

L'olimpiade, Act I: Quel destrier, che all'albergo e vicino

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Sarti: Olimpiade

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Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Markellos Chryssicos

Olimpiade, Act I: Oh care selve, oh cara felice liberta!

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Myslivecek: L'olimpiade, EvaM 10:C12

Work length6:11

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Nicholas Phan (tenor)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Markellos Chryssicos

L'olimpiade, EvaM 10:C12, Act I: Del destin non vi lagnate

Track length6:11

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Paisiello: Olimpiade

Work length5:59

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Ruth Rosique (soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Markellos Chryssicos

Olimpiade, Act I: Tu di saper procura

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David Perez: Olimpiade

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Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Markellos Chryssicos

Olimpiade, Act I: Piu non si trovano

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Excerpt, Vivaldi: L'Olimpiade RV725

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Franziska Gottwald (mezzo-soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Markellos Chryssicos

L'Olimpiade, RV 725, Act I: Mentre dormi, Amor fomenti

Track length9:33

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Gassmann: L'olimpiade

Work length5:42

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Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano), Ruth Rosique (soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Markellos Chryssicos

L'olimpiade, Act I: Nei giorni tuoi felici

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Excerpt, Caldara: L'Olimpiade

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Ruth Rosique (soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Markellos Chryssicos

L'olimpiade, Act II: Grandi, e ver, son le tue pene

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Traetta: Olimpiade

Work length5:00

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Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Markellos Chryssicos

Olimpiade, Act II: Che non mi disse un di!

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L'Olimpiade

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Nicholas Spanos (countertenor)

L'Olimpiade, Act II: Siam navi all'onde algenti

Track length3:26

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Olimpiade

Work length1:12

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Franziska Gottwald (mezzo-soprano), Nicholas Phan (tenor), Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano), Ruth Rosique (soprano), Nicholas Spanos (countertenor)

Olimpiade, Act II: Del forte Licida

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Jommelli: L'olimpiade

Work length6:09

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Nicholas Phan (tenor)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Markellos Chryssicos

L'olimpiade, Act II: So ch'e fanciullo Amore

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Cherubini: Olimpiade

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Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Markellos Chryssicos

Olimpiade, Act II: Se cerca, se dice: "L'amico dov'e?"

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Leo: L'olimpiade

Work length2:57

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Ruth Rosique (soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Markellos Chryssicos

L'olimpiade, Act II: Tu me da me dividi

Track length2:57

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Excerpt, Pergolesi: L'Olimpiade

Work length2:42

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Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Markellos Chryssicos

L'Olimpiade, Act II: No, la speranza più non mi alletta

Track length2:42

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L'olimpiade

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L'olimpiade, Act II: Gemo in un punto, e fremo

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Piccinni: Olimpiade

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Ruth Rosique (soprano)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Markellos Chryssicos

Olimpiade, Act III: Caro, son tua cosi

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L'olimpiade

Work length9:58

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Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano)

L'olimpiade, Act III: Lo seguitai felice

Track length9:58

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Olimpiade

Work length6:55

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Olimpiade, Act III: Fiamma ignota nell'alma mi scende

Track length6:55

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L'Olimpiade

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Nicholas Phan (tenor), Ruth Rosique (soprano), Franziska Gottwald (mezzo-soprano), Karina Gauvin (soprano)

Act III: Son qual per mare ignoto

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Act III: I tuoi strali terror de' mortali

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Cimarosa: L'olimpiade

Work length5:08

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Nicholas Phan (tenor)
Venice Baroque Orchestra
Markellos Chryssicos

L'olimpiade, Act III: Non so donde viene

Track length5:08

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L'Olimpiade

Work length1:48

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L'Olimpiade, Act III: Viva il figlio delinquente

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Recording of the Week, L’Olimpiade: The Opera

23rd July 2012

The Venice Baroque Orchestra and a fine line-up of singers present a pasticcio setting of a libretto by Metastasio, with contributions from composers including Caldara, Vivaldi, Galuppi, Hasse and Paisiello.

In the eighteenth century, 1,300 years after the last Olympic Games in ancient times, the Olympic theme was highly fashionable. Many composers based operas on the libretto L'Olimpiade by Metastasio. This recording has been structured to contain all of Metastasio’s original arias; it is a pasticcio in the sense that the music is by 16 different composers amongst the many that set the libretto between 1733 and the end of the century.

This new release includes 16 arias in world-premiere recording.

Reviews

Within individual numbers the performances can be thrilling...the band nimbly negotiates the huge range of effects demanded by this composite score...Franziska Gottwald is spellbinding in Vivaldi's 'Mentre dormi', combining tenderness, warm timbres and awesome pianissimos. Sprightly and silver-toned, Ruth Rosique tosses off Tommaso Traetta's fioritura with courtly ease.

September 2012

if you treat the discs as a succession of concert arias there is much to enjoy here...the Venice Baroque Orchestra play with their trademark zest and colour...If the soloists can be word-shy, all sing with skill and stylistic understanding...Romina Basso impresses with her fiery temperament and scintillating coloratura...Nicholas Phan fields a compact, mellifluous tenor...The palm, though, goes to Karina Gauvin's Argene

June 2012

Vivaldi's sole contribution, 'Mentre dormi', stands head and shoulders above the rest...The playing of the Venice Baroque Orcehstra under Chryssicos is extremely fine, full-blooded and alert string-playing with characterful wind contributions. This is a useful exploration of the compositional history of L'Olimpiade in attractive performances and I hope that complete versions by some of these composers are forthcoming once the Olympic frenzy is over.

23rd July 2012

The finished article is a pleasing hotchpotch of high baroque, Rococo and early-Classical styles, and whilst the arias aren’t arranged chronologically I didn’t feel that any of the stylistic transitions were jarring...Romina Basso’s robust, flexible mezzo is made for this repertoire..[Gottwald's] pleasantly brittle timbre reminded me of the young Magdalena Kozena.

27th May 2012

The plot concerns the usual opera seria conflicts of loyalty, love and power, all set off by a deception. It amounts to a sequence of seemingly disconnected arias, but there’s not a dud among them.

20th May 2012

Sung and played with freshness and spirit by the Venice Baroque and six youthful soloists, this disc – full of showpiece da capo arias and gleeful coloratura – may up your game on the obscure opera front.

18th August 2012

There are no obvious duds, though the best items do come from the few composers whose names are still remembered – a glorious Cherubini aria sung by Romina Basso’s Megacle in Act II and Cimarosa’s Non sò donde viene at the close of Act III...Comprehensively annotated, very well recorded and beautifully played

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