Amor tiranno. Broken-hearted Lovers in Seventeenth-Century Venice
4/24/2020, 20 Tracks, 1:10:45
Featuring
Carlo Vistoli
Filippo Pantieri
Lucia Cortese
Ensemble Sezione Aurea
Francesco Cavalli
Tarquinio Merula
Benedetto Ferrari
Filiberto Laurenzi
Francesco Sacrati
Giovanni Ceresini
Claudio Monteverdi
Girolamo Frescobaldi
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Notable Performances
La finta pazza by Giulio Strozzi (librettist) and Francesco Sacrati (composer) was the first opera ever staged in France.
Composer Biography
While Francesco Cavalli is considered the foremost Venetian opera composer, Benedetto Ferrari was the inventor of the genre, though none of his opera scores have survived.
Instruments
The recording features a violin made in 2016 by Adrian Salazar, modeled after an Antonio Stradivari 'Bavarian' violin from 1720.
Composition History
Claudio Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea, featured on this album, was his last opera and the first historical opera produced for a fee-paying audience.
Historical Context
The literary works of the Venetian Accademia degli Incogniti, a libertine academy, heavily influenced the concept of unhappy love in 17th-century Venetian operas.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The Baroque period, particularly in Venice, rejected the Renaissance ideal of pure, courtly love, instead focusing on frustrated affections and the 'ugliness of everyday life'.
Recording & Production
The bonus track, Frescobaldi's 'Così mi disprezzate', was included because its theme of rejected love aligns with the album's concept, despite the composer primarily working in Rome, not Venice.
