This album, 'The Other Cleopatra: Queen of Armenia,' focuses on the character of Cleopatra of Pontus, rather than the more famous Cleopatra of Egypt.
Composer Biography
Antonio Vivaldi's 'Il Tigrane' was a collaboration with two other composers, with only his Act II music surviving.
Performer Biography
Isabel Bayrakdarian, the soprano on this album, holds a degree in biomedical engineering and won the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in the same year she graduated.
Recording & Production
The music by Hasse and Gluck on this album has never been recorded before.
Composition History
The three operas featured on this album—by Hasse, Vivaldi, and Gluck—all bear the title 'Il Tigrane' and are based on the same libretto by Abate Francesco Silvani.
Composition History
There are at least twenty-four operas about the Armenian King Tigranes II, though most are lost.
Composer Biography
Johann Adolph Hasse, a composer featured on this album, was considered by Charles Burney, a foremost music historian, to be 'the most natural, elegant, and judicious composer of vocal music.'
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