Handel's Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno

Handel's Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno / Idéale audience, Festival Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence ; Stéphane Metge, director ; Krzysztof Warlikowski, stage director.

Composed in 1707 in Rome, Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno is an oratorio in two parts with a libretto written by Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili. Staged by Krzysztof Warlikowski and conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm, this sublime performance was presented at the Aix-en-Provence Festival...

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Corporate Authors: Concert d'Astrée (Musical group) (Performer), Festival international d'art lyrique et de musique (Aix-en-Provence, France)
Other Authors: Devieilhe, Sabine (Singer), Mingardo, Sara (Singer), Fagioli, Franco, 1981- (Singer), Spyres, Michael (Singer), Haïm, Emmanuelle (Conductor), Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759
Format: Video
Language:Italian
English
French
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Idéale audience : Festival Lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence, 2016.
Subjects:
Oratorios.
Concert films.
Internet videos.
Vidéos sur Internet.
Concerts filmés.
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Summary:Composed in 1707 in Rome, Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno is an oratorio in two parts with a libretto written by Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili. Staged by Krzysztof Warlikowski and conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm, this sublime performance was presented at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2016. Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno was Handel's first oratorio and features four allegorical characters: Beauty, Pleasure, Time and Disappointment. "Beauty chooses to ignore that existence is finite, preferring to admire herself in the mirror of Pleasure. But Time and Truth constantly remind her that 'beauty is a flower that blooms in a day and then dies'". Under the baton of Emmanuelle Haïm, the Concert d'Astrée accompanied a brilliant cast featuring Sabine Devieilhe (Bellezza), Franco Fagioli (Piacere), Sara Mingardo (Disinganno) and Michael Spyres (Tempo). This oratorio is a scandal. Reading its libretto is a shock. It's a purely dogmatic work whose title mirrors works from Stalin's Russia. Every performance of Trionfo should be preceded by a commentary discussing its ideological content [...]. We are far from the Greeks and their mythology. We are in Rome, at the heart of religious power, in the center of the Counter-Reformation. Krzysztof Warlikowski.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 16 min., 53 sec.)) : sound, color
Playing Time:02:16:53
Participant or Performer:Sabine Devieilhe (Bellezza) ; Sara Mingardo (Disinganno) ; Franco Fagioli (Piacere) ; Michael Spyres (Tempo) ; Le Concert d'Astrée ; Emmanuelle Haïm, conductor.
Language:Sung in Italian; English or French subtitles.
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