Vinci : Artaserse. Jaroussky, Fagioli, Cencic, Fasolis.

Leonardo Vinci : Artaserse.

Philippe Jaroussky (Artaserse), Franco Fagioli (Arbace), Max Emanuel Cencic (Mandane), Valer Barna-Sabadus (Semira), Yuriy Mynenko (Megabise), Juan Sancho (Artabano), Concerto Köln, Diego Fasolis. Mise en scène : Silvi Purcarete.

Format: 2 DVD Video
Release date: 1/5/2014
Barcode: 0825646323234 Categories: ,

23,90

   in Opera Now (Jul, 2014)
After great success on CD and in Silviu Purcarete’s staging at Nancy, conductor Diego Fasolis brings his five countertenors to DVD. It’s clearly a brilliant performance – I cannot warm much to Vinci’s music, though he is a decent melodist – with Fasolis and the Concerto Koln playing with furious energy and plenty of nice titivation in continuo and scoring, while the singing is almost uniformly astonishing. But the film – made with great attention to detail – puts way too much focus on the generic mincing and fey gesturing of the overly stylised staging, whose campery gets wearisome; and close-ups of the singers don’t always do them many favours. The …

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