Farnace

  • Farnace, King of Pontus ( alto castrato )
  • Berenice, Queen of Cappadocia and mother Tamiris (soprano )
  • Tamiri, queen and wife of Farnace (Alt )
  • Selinda, Farnaces sister (soprano )
  • Pompeo, Roman proconsul ( alto castrato )
  • Gilade, prince of royal blood and Captain Berenices ( soprano castrato )
  • Aquilio, Prefect of the Roman legions (Tenor)
  • A boy, son of Farnace and Tamiri ( silent role )
  • Roman and Asian soldiers (chorus )

Farnace (Italian for Pharnakes II ) is a Baroque opera ( dramma per musica ) by Antonio Vivaldi on a libretto by Antonio Maria Lucchini. In Ryom directory it is listed as RV 711. The premiere took place on February 10, 1727 at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice instead.

Circumstances Log in /

The Farnace is one of the most frequently -composed opera substances of the Baroque.

Vivaldi set to music the fabric for the first time in 1727 for a performance in Venice. Probably but he had already come 1724 in Rome with the corresponding libretto Antonio Maria Lucchinis in contact, namely as Leonardo da Vinci in Rome performed the first setting of the substance in the Teatro delle Dame, while Vivaldi at the same time the performances at the Teatro Capranica his Tigrane also in Rome, presided.

The libretto was obviously a fascinating effect on Vivaldi, because overall he created seven settings of this substance - so for a revival in Venice in the autumn of 1727 with some new arias, 1730 Prague, 1731 Pavia, 1732 for Mantua, 1737 for Treviso and 1738 Ferrara (where the show was canceled ).

Handed down as a score, only the first version of Venice in February 1727 and the unfinished manuscript of the libretto for Ferrara in 1738, of which Vivaldi was finishing only the first two acts due to the cancellation of the performance.

Recordings

In 2001, Jordi Savall brought the version for Venice 1727 - with Einsprenkelungen from the soundtrack of the same substance by Francesco Corselli Madrid 1739 - Madrid Teatro de la Zarzuela on the following cast to the performance. ( The recording of these performances was released in 2002 as CD edition. )

  • Farnace - Furio Zanasi (baritone )
  • Berenice - Adriana Fernandez (soprano )
  • Tamiri - Sara Mingardo ( )
  • Selinda - Gloria Banditelli (mezzo- soprano)
  • Pompeo - Sonia Prina (Alt )
  • Gilade - Cinzia Forte (soprano )
  • Aquilio - Fulvio Bettini (baritone )
  • Chorus of the Teatro de la Zarzuela, headed by Antonio Fauro
  • Le Concert des Nations

Nine years later took Frederic Dalamea who had made already earned to many recordings of Vivaldi operas, and Diego Fasolis the unfinished manuscript of the score for Ferrara and reconstructed the missing third act The result was a reconstructed version, which in 2011 as a studio recording Virgin Classics / EMI was released as a CD edition. Cast of this version:

  • Farnace - Max Emanuel Cencic ( counter-tenor / soprano )
  • Berenice - Mary Ellen Nesi (mezzo- soprano)
  • Tamiri - Ruxandra Donose (mezzo- soprano)
  • Selinda - Ann Hallenberg (mezzo- soprano)
  • Pompeo - Daniel Behle (Tenor)
  • Gilade - Karina Gauvin (soprano )
  • Aquilio - Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (Tenor)
  • I Barocchisti
  • Diego Fasolis

If you compare the two versions together, it is noticeable that in the first act adopted most arias unchanged and were possibly adapted to the different voices of the level involved or potentially available, predisposed singers. In the second act, however, many arias are entirely rewritten, or were replaced by borrowings from other operas. For the third Act Fasolis and Dalamea stopped at the templates from the third act of the original version from Venice and have only one surviving in various copies gloss aria for Berenice Non trova mai riposo set for the originally set to music sources candido fiore. In the following overview the arias of the two Vivaldi versions are compared, including the length of the recording on your CD, the Akt-/Szenen-Zuordnung after libretto.

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