Orlando furioso
Antonio Vivaldi
Malibran Theatre
Orlando furioso RV 819 is a three-act opera surviving in manuscript in Antonio Vivaldi’s personal library, only partly related to his better known Orlando furioso (RV 728) of 1727. It is a recomposition of an Orlando furioso written by Giovanni Alberto Ristori which had been very successfully staged by Vivaldi and his father’s impresa in 1713, and whose music survives in a few fragments retained in the score of RV 819. Therefore, Vivaldi’s first cataloguer Peter Ryom did not assign the opera a RV number, but catalogued it as RV Anh. 84. The libretto was by Grazio Braccioli.
La Fenice production
with Festival della Valle d’Itria
LOCANDINA
Orlando Sonia Prina
Angelica Michela Antenucci
Alcina Lucia Cirillo
Astolfo Luca Tittoto
Bradamante Loriana Castellano
Ruggero Kangmin Justin Kim
Medoro Laura Polverelli
La Fenice Orchestra & Choir
Conductor Diego Fasolis
Chorus Master Alfonso Caiani
Director Fabio Ceresa
Sets Massimo Checchetto
Costumes Beppe Palella
