SERSE - LIVE RECORDING is the second release by HDB Sonus with Ottavio Dantone and Accademia Bizantina.
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At the height of his operatic career, Händel wrote a masterpiece that defied the tastes of the time.
With a nod to the structures of seventeenth-century opera, Händel composed a score that amazes today for its originality and variety.
A drama for music that departs from the typical opera production of the 1730s: arias of all kinds, ariosi, recitatives embedded in the arias, love, jealousy, betrayal, all seasoned with an unusual comic element.
A kaleidoscope of timeless emotions.
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
SERSE / HWV 40
Opera Seria in Tre Atti
Libretto: Anonimo, da Xerse di Nicolò Minato adattato da Silvio Stampiglia
Edizione critica a cura di Bernardo Ticci
Prima rappresentazione: London, King’s Theatre,15 aprile 1738
Cast:
Serse | Arianna Vendittelli, soprano
Arsamene | Marina De Liso, mezzo-soprano
Amastre | Delphine Galou, contralto
Ariodate | Luigi De Donato, basso
Romilda | Monica Piccinini, soprano
Atalanta | Francesca Aspromonte, soprano
Elviro | Biagio Pizzuti, baritono
ACCADEMIA BIZANTINA
OTTAVIO DANTONE clavicembalo e direzione
2 CD - Total timing: 2h 11’40’’

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