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Vivaldi returns to the Prague stage.

Publication: Czech Music
Publication Date: 01-APR-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Vivaldi returns to the Prague stage.(event)

Article Excerpt
After almost three centuries Prague welcomed back an honoured guest--the Baroque cavalier known as Argippo. An opera written specifically for the Prague public by the famous Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi in 1730 was performed at the beginning of May in the Spanish Halt of Prague Castle. Until recently the opera was thought to be lost, but much of the work was found last year by the harpsichordist and musicologist Ondrej Macek. His discovery was recognised by the specialist public at an international conference in Venice and he went on to prepare a new premiere of the reconstructed opera for this year's 330th anniversary of Vivaldi's birth.

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Antonio Vivaldi was well-known as an opera composer in Prague in the 1720s and 30s. The impresario of the theatre company here, the Venetian Antonio Denzio, was a friend of Vivaldi's and many of his singers had performed before coming to Prague in the Venetian premieres of Vivaldi's operas under the composer's direction. Vivaldi also acted as an agent for Denzio, sending him the scores of new operas across the Alps and recommending singers. Of the six Vivaldi operas that Denzio staged in the Prague Sporck Theatre, one opera apart from Argippo is also known to have been performed here and nowhere else. This is Alvilda,...

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