Vivaldi, Darius and the Shroud of Turin
It’s official, thadieu and I have our tickets for the very silly L’incoronazione di Dario at Torino’s Teatro Regio, where we’ll see this badarse cast under Dantone’s (who else? He loves this one) baton:
| Dario, che viene incoronato re dei persiani tenore | Carlo Allemano |
| Statira, principessa semplice, primogenita di Ciro contralto |
Sara Mingardo |
| Argene, sorella minore di Statira contralto | Delphine Galou |
| Niceno, filosofo baritono | Riccardo Novaro |
| Alinda, principessa di Media, amante di Oronte soprano |
Roberta Mameli |
| Oronte, nobile perfetto, pretendente di Statira mezzosoprano |
Lucia Cirillo |
| Arpago, pretendente di Statira soprano | Veronica Cangemi |
| Flora, damigella di corte, confidente delle due principesse contralto |
Romina Tomasoni |
| Ombra di Ciro tenore | Cullen Gandy |
So we know the contraltos but what of the baritone? He was also in the original recording as well as at Festival de Beaune:
And here’s Sr Novaro singing not Vivaldi but spinning rather well on that horse statue:
Whilst scratching my no so cosmopolitan head regarding things to do in Torino other than watching contraltos and friends, a buddy reminded me of the famous shroud.
Jesus in the shroud, posing suspiciously like a medieval knight would
Why of course! Who wouldn’t want to see that? Except, upon investigation, it turns out that it’s not that often on display. 9/10 times you’re likely to see a copy. Which means you see a copy of a… fantasy. About right for the post truth era 😉 Though we hope all the above musicians show up in old skool real fashion.
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Posted on January 30, 2017, in baroque, italian opera and tagged handel, l'incoronazione di dario, riccardo novaro, rinaldo, shroud of turin, vivaldi. Bookmark the permalink. 33 Comments.
opera, innit? 
you lucky two, you!
busy at work over that weekend? 😉
Tito Empress, Dario Temptress!
haha, indeed. Btw, I couldn’t live with hearing Ariodante at the Barbican only so I will be over at TADW for it if you’re down for some EG bitching 😉
now that’s an offer a Handel fangirl cannot refuse. 🙂
Wasn’t Carlo Allemano the guy who sang Ariodate is the Cavalli Xerse we saw in Vienna, the one who had the incredible voice? And really cool Persian style hair? Ah, this is going to be good. I got the recording a couple of Christmases ago and it’s very good. If the set didn’t look quite so… odd… I’d be itching to join you as this hardly ever seems to be staged… Have an amazing time!
(The Galleria Sabauda is meant to be very good as well although I’ve never been, and I think Turin has one of the best collections of ancient Egyptian material in the world, if that’s your thing, although I don’t know the name of the museum).
oh, yes, I saw there was an Egyptian Art Museum.
I think it’s the same Allemano, we’ll see 😉
thanks for the recommendation, we’ll be there for three days so we should be able to see a couple of things.
think again about it, you might want to join anyway 😉 (Vivaldi!)
When are you going??? I am also getting tickets for that!
we’re there for the weekend of 22-23 April (both shows 😀 ).
Ah that’s too bad! I’ll go either 13 or 14 (or both). We’ll share impressions!
indeed! have fun on your dates 🙂
that 2nd clip costume is pretty serious! (i actually watched the entire thing, R.Invenizzi kicks ass!)
(oh, this aria Novaro sings in Rinaldo is the same one (music) in Aci Galatae e Polifermo)
are you getting excited about the trip? 😉 I’m not surprised Handel re-used that aria, it’s really good.
jeah, am looking for this.. in the case you need a big jolt, this happens right after Novaro’s aria.
Furie terribili! Now that’s an aria, I agree 😀
better than any coffee 😉
can’t do it without swords 😀
the head gears also important! i was debating betwwen this putfit on high (waving) horsy and leather
true! that’s why we had valkiries with horns for so long.
i just saw a clip, they’re bringing in a karate team for that sword fighting scene, i’ll be squealing…
also, i saw they have english surtitle.
but the lyrics are flowers and birds for Statira and “I want him to be mine” for Argene 😉
yay for the karate team. I actually didn’t realise there was a need for a fight scene so I was a bit confused when I saw all the moves.
that has to do with the 2 other trouser-role ones: mezzo (Oronto = L.Cirillo) , soprano (Apagio = V.Cangemi) , both wanting to marry Statira 😉 . But Oronto had an ex (Alinda = R.Mameli) who chased after to try to snatch him back. I tell you, i’m studying now, following Anik’s detailed liner-note. Was very fun to follow the note while listening to it live.
yes, but the question is does anyone care about the Oronto/Alinda storyline?
i noticed it mainly because they kept labeling Oronto (L.Cirillo) wrong as V.Cangemi 😉
Also, because they have that nice ninja fighting scene, i really love the extra sound from the scene and the music.
maybe I need to read that summary, I still have no idea what the fighting is about.
me neither, but i like ninja karate scene
I know, there should be more of them in opera. There should be more ninjas, too!
ps- a bit unrelated.. i was listening to Dario in rounds and heard the prompter so clearly.. so i googled them 🙂 , and found this really cool blog, starting with this post about singers blanking out!
btw, something like this happened just recently but I didn’t talk about it because the rest of the performance was goood (it can happen to anyone). It was kind of funny, though, the singer just stopped, said nothing for like 3-4 beats, then the prompter must’ve prompted and things just moved on.
ps2- there’s also the latest post on that blog talking about good singers who can’t act.. , pretty cool to read 🙂 .
very good! I know exactly what the author means when saying the soprano will help the tenor just as soon as she’s done singing! Haha!
are you around tonight? I realised I hadn’t done check in yet for the flight. If you can pop in for your details – or we can do it when you get here. I just need to print the tickets at work. Or do you want to skip printing yours and use your mobile for that?
also, on all those picture labels, i’m pretty sure i can distinguish Lucia Cirillo and Veronica Cangemi.. but they kept swapping these 2 singers around in pix caption. Also, we know Alinda wants to be with Oronte, hence it has to be Mameli (our Dalinda in that Bucharest Ariodante, or Nerone in that Poppea from.. somewhere on tube) and Cirillo (Paciere in that Il Trionfo from Scala last year with Mingardo that we caught on radio).