La resurrezione (The Resurrection / 1708 Haendel / Capece), oratorio (music & libretto), Rome premiere (cast)
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La resurrezione di nostro Signore Gesù Cristo (1708) is an oratorio, set to music by Georg Frideric Haendel.
~ Original libretto by Carlo Sigismondo Capece.
Abstract
Cast (Rome premiere) and characters
- Margherita Durastanti = Mary Magdalene (soprano)
- Lucifer (bass)
- Angel (soprano)
- John the Evangelist (tenor)
- St. Mary Cleophas (alto)
- Arcangelo Corelli, conductor
Note: After the premiere, the soprano Margherita Durastanti was replaced by a castrato (of whom only the name Pippo is recorded), as the participation of female singers was prohibited by Papal edict.
Performance history
Premiered in Rome, Italy: Palazzo Bonelli, 8 April 1708.
Sound Recordings
External links
- Wikipedia
- Opening Night! (1708) -- ICCU (1708)
Categories:
- 1708
- Fiction--1700s
- Fiction--Italian
- Music--1700s
- Music--Italian
- Literature--1700s
- Literature--Italian
- Oratorios
- Italian language--1700s
- Made in the 1700s
- Historical Jesus Studies--1700s
- Historical Jesus Studies--Italian
- Historical Jesus Studies--Fiction
- Resurrection of Jesus (subject)
- Mary Magdalene--literature (subject)
- Mary Magdalene--music (subject)
- John--literature (subject)
- John--music (subject)
- Mary Cleophas--literature (subject)
- Mary Cleophas--music (subject)