Credits:

Carlo Ipata, Florence May Music Festival Orchestra, Roberta Mameli

Description:

Prince Aeneas was born to the Trojan king and the goddess Aphrodite. After his defeat in the Trojan War, he drifted to Carthage on the coast of North Africa. Here he met Queen Didone and fell in love with her, but in the end he abandoned her in order to rebuild Troia, and after seven years of wandering he arrived in Italy, where he married a princess. He married a princess there and laid the foundations of the Roman Empire. Didone, on the other hand, in an act of grief, threw herself into a blazing fire. The Metastasio libretto based on this story was composed by as many as 100 composers, including Galuppi, Hasse, and Paisiello, and was very popular at the time. Vinci's "The Abandoned Didone," composed for the Teatro delle Dame in Rome and premiered to great acclaim during the 1726 Carnival season, marked the beginning of a fruitful collaboration between Vinci and Metastasio, and over the next four years, Metastasio produced more than Over the next four years, Metastasio produced more than five scripts for Vinci. This video is the world's first live recording of Vinci's "Abandoned Didone" with the baroque singing specialist.The show is notable not only for the skillful singing of Mameli and other singers who have visited Japan before, but also for its modern and stylish equipment and costumes. Naxos Japan