Alessandro De Marchi, Academia Montis Regalis - Vivaldi: Orlando finto pazzo (2004)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,14 Gb | Total time: 203:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP30392 | Recorded: 2003
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,14 Gb | Total time: 203:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP30392 | Recorded: 2003
Orlando finto pazzo ('Orlando feigns madness') was the second of Vivaldi's numerous operas, and his first for the Venetian stage. The story of Orlando's madness is taken not from the usual source, Ariosto's poem Orlando furioso, but Boiardo's earlier Orlando innamorato, a similarly tragicomic mix of love, intrigue and magic. In Ariosto's poem Orlando's madness is real, but here he pretends it for no obvious reason; in fact it's no more than a couple of episodes in a convoluted and unengaging plot built around a lovepentangle (no less), and further complicated by various disguises and rampant dissembling.