FULL MESSALINA (Carlo Pallavicino) San Francisco CA 2021 Aura Veruni, Deborah Rosengaus, Kevin Gino, Shawnette Sulker
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Messalina
- Composer: Pallavicino Carlo
- Libretto: Francesco Maria Piccioli Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: ODC Theater, San Franciso, California
- Recorded: November 19, 2021
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Aura Veruni, Deborah Rosengaus, Kevin Gino, Shawnette Sulker, Kindra Scharich, Patrick Hagen, Zachary Gordin, Marcus Paige
- Conductor: Jory Vinikour
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Céline Ricci
- Costume Designer: Marina Polakoff
- Lighting Designer: Thomas Bowersox
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Ars Minerva
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
- Video Recording from: mail.ru FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
A sex farce with teeth. Clever, lecherous Messalina turns the tables several times on the gullible Emperor Claudius, who is hardly innocent himself. Meanwhile two other couples suffer their own romantic vicissitudes. Furtive assignations, frustrated trysts, kidnappings, betrayals, sudden recognitions, a heroine and a hero both in drag, and a plot as convoluted as only 17th-century Venetian opera can put together, all lead to a reconciliation that will last only as long as Messalina can keep pulling the wool over Claudius’ eyes
Carlo Pallavicino (Pallavicini; c. 1630 – 29 January 1688) was an Italian composer.
Pallavicino was born at Salò. From 1666 to 1673, he worked at the Dresden court; from 1674 to 1685, at the Ospedale degli Incurabili (a conservatory where orphaned children were musically trained) in Venice and further in Dresden. In August and September 1687, he was with the concert master Georg Gottfried Backstroh back in Venice. He asked for renewal of his leave because his wife expected to give birth, but he was rejected. He died in Dresden, and his grave is located in the Convent of the St. Mariestern.
He wrote more than 20 operas premiered in Venice and Dresden, oratorios and sacred works. His son, Dresden court writer Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino, was a known librettist.