Cavalli: Hercules in Love
2019 · 191 min
Music
★ 10.0Francesco Cavalli, a natural successor to Monteverdi, was the most famous and influential Italian opera composer during the mid-17th century. Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister to the king, commissioned Cavalli to create a Parisian spectacle to celebrate the wedding of the ‘Sun King’ Louis XIV and the Infanta of Spain. Ercole amante (‘Hercules in Love’) was the flattering subject chosen for this regal extravaganza combining larger-than-life characters with mythology, and genuine human emotions with natural and cosmic phenomena. The result is a sumptuous Baroque spectacle, conceived on a vast scale in this lavish production by directors Valerie Lesort and Christian Hecq.
Crew
- Director François Roussillon
- Writer Francesco Buti
Cast
Nahuel Di Pierro
Ercole
Giuseppina Bridelli
Deianira
- R
Ray Chenez
Il Paggio
Francesca Aspromonte
Iole
- E
Eugénie Lefebvre
Pasithea / Clerica / Terza Grazia / Secondo Pianeta
- D
Dominique Visse
Licco
Giulia Semenzato
Venere / Bellezza / Cinzia
- L
Luca Tittoto
Nettuno / Eutyro
Krystian Adam
Hyllo
Anna Bonitatibus
Giunone
- E
Ensemble Pygmalion
Choeur et Orchestre
Crew
- Director — François Roussillon
- Writer — Francesco Buti
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