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Tag Archives: Cesti

Friars just wanna have fun: Cesti’s Orontea with La Nuova Musica

The penniless artist Alidoro, who is raised to wealth and power by Queen Orontea’s passion, albeit with a few hiccups along the way, is thought to be a humourous self-parody of Cesti, whose friar’s vows of poverty, chastity and obedience didn’t seem to hold him back from much in life. La Nuova Musica threw themselves into…

December 15, 2015 in Opera.

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