Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV46a (complete opera recorded in 2016)
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV46a (complete opera recorded in 2016)
Le Concert d'Astree / Sabine Devieilhe, Franco Fagioli, Sara Mingardo, Michael Spyres / Emmanuelle Haim
[ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / DVD ]
Release Date: Saturday 10 June 2017
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Stage designer - Malgorzata Szczesniak
Dramaturge - Christian Longchamp
Lighting designer - Felice Ross
Choreography - Claude Bardouil
Video designer - Denis Guéguin
Musical Assistant - David Bates
Language Coach - Rita de Letteriis
Stage Director Assistant - Marielle Kahn
Stage & Costumes Designer Assistant - Barbara Creutz
Video Assistant - Fabien Laubry
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence has firmly established itself as France's preeminent summer festival and is a key fixture on the international festival calendar. It is particularly in the field of opera that the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence continues to break new ground and this release from the 2016 festival demonstrates that. In this new staging - a coproduction with the Opéra de Lille, Théâtre de Caen - Emmanuelle Haïm directs Le Concert d'Astrée with a star-studded cast including Franco Fagioli, Sara Mingardo, Michael Spyres, and exclusive Erato artist Sabine Devieilhe.
Translated as "The Triumph of Time and Disillusionment" Handel's first oratorio was one he would continue to revise throughout his life. The first version, heard here, was written and premiered in Rome in 1707 to a libretto by Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili. It tells the story of the narcissistic Bellezza, her relationship with the deceitful Piacere, and her journey towards goodness, truth and inner beauty. It famously includes "Lascia la spina", the first version of an aria he recycled for his opera Rinaldo - "Lascia ch'io pianga" - arguably his most famous aria.
Running time: 138 min. approx.
Languages: Sung in Italian
Subtitles: Italian, French, German, English
Audio specs: Stereo PCM 2.0
Dolby Digital 5.1
NTSC - All regions - 16:9
"Bellezza is sung with radiance, thrilling richness, and also touching frailty by French soprano Sabine Deveilhe. She dazzles in Handel's glittering cascades, uses ornamentation with exquisite expressiveness, and displays an astonishing agility, leaping cleanly to the stratosphere and back with startling ease. At times, Deveilhe is surprisingly fierce, snarling through the upward appoggiaturas, flashing sparks at the top, but in the Part 2 aria in which she comes to her fate-sealing decision to spurn Piacere she exhibits a paradoxical and touching combination of emotional fragility and sincerity which conveys through impressive strength of tone and control of line." MusicWeb
"Deveilhe..singing exquisitely throughout…Spyres staggers the ear with unfailingly firm tone over an extraordinary wide range. Leading her superbly stylish, technically adroit Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm enganges in a true collaboration with the singers." Opera
