Vivaldi: Dorilla in Tempe
Wexford Festival Opera, 23rd October 2019
Does Vivaldi have a distinct operatic fingerprint? From the opening chorus of Dorilla in Tempe, every single person in Wexford’s National Opera House could have identified the composer… because the Red Priest borrows from the opening strains of Spring from his ubiquitous Four Seasons! Premiered at the Teatro Sant’ Angelo in Venice in November 1726, the score to Dorilla only survives in a pasticcio version, put on for a Venetian revival in 1734, which included eight arias by four other composers, including Johann Adolph Hasse.
Manuela Custer (Dorilla) and José Maria Lo Monaco (Elmiro)
© Clive Barda
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