Allabastrina, La Pifarescha, Elena Sartori - Francesca Caccini: La liberazione di Ruggiero dall'isola di Alcina (2017)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 79:10 | 387 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Glossa | Catalog: GCD 923902
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 79:10 | 387 MB
Genre: Classical, Opera | Label: Glossa | Catalog: GCD 923902
With this production of Francesca Caccini’s 'La liberazione di Ruggerio dall'isola di Alcina', directed by Elena Sartori, an important stepping-stone in the development of 17th-century opera receives a superb new recording from Glossa. For much of her career - Caccini was a composer, a virtuoso singer, a teacher, a poet and a multi-instrumentalist - she worked at the Medici court, and was commissioned by the grand duchess of Tuscany, Maria Maddalena of Austria, to write this commedia in musica for performance in Florence in 1625.