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Margravial Opera House, Bayreuth 2022
Alessandro nell’ Indie
Opera in three acts

The opera “Alessandro nell’Indie” came out in Rome in 1730, where women were barred from performing for religious reasons? The female roles were therefore all sung by castrati. The Bayreuth production takes up this fact with an all-male cast featuring the Brazilian soprano Bruno de Sá and the countertenors Franco Fagioli and Jake Arditti in the leading roles.

0:00:00 Intro
0:00:53 Act I
1:33:53 Act II
2:51:53 Act III

Music by Leonardo Vinci
Libretto by Pietro Metastasio

Cast

Franco Fagioli – Poro
Bruno de Sá – Cleofide
Jake Arditti – Erissena
Maayan Licht – Alessandro
Stefan Sbonnik – Gandarte
Nicholas Tamagna – Timagene

Martyna Pastuszka – Musical Director & Violin
Max Emanuel Cenčić – Director & Staging

Orchestra

{oh!} Orkiestra
Adam Pastuszka, Vida Bobin-Sokołowska, Anna Nowak-Pokrzywińska, Bartłomiej Fraś – Violin I
Violetta Szopa-Tomczyk, Dominika Małecka, Marzena Biwo, Izabela Kozak,
Szymon Strzelczyk – Violin II
Dymitr Olszewski, Szymon Stochniol – Viola
Vladimir Waltham, Monika Hartmann – Violoncello
Michał Bąk, Tillmann Steinhöfel – Kontrabass
Panos Iliopoulos, Anna Firlus – Cemballo
Jan Čižmář – Laute & Theorbe
Benoit Laurent, Pedro Castro – Oboe & Blockflöte
Josep Casadella – Fagott
Guillermo Izquierdo Perez, Miguel Martin – Horn
Thomas Steinbrucker, Martin Sillaber – Trompete
Adam Maros – Pauke

Olivier Simonnet – Video Director

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