Johann Adolf Hasse: L'Olimpiade - Das olympische Spiel
PH 21053 (Profil, CD, 2 discs)
FIRST RELEASE (6 October 2023)
Playing time: 56'00"/74'10" - TT 130'10"
Tracks: 15 + 26
Booklet pages: 96
℗ 1992 MDR Audio
© 2023 Profil Medien GmbH
Main country of recording: Germany
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Johann Adolf Hasse: L'Olimpiade - Das olympische Spiel published on 21 November 2023
Christoph Prégardien, tenor
Catherine Robbin, mezzo
Dorothea Röschmann, soprano
David Cordier, tenor
Randall Wong, soprano
Steven Rickards, countertenor
Cappella Sagittariana Dresden
Kammerchor Stuttgart
Frieder Bernius, conductor
Johann Adolf Hasse (1699-1783):
L'Olimpiade - Das olympische Spiel. Dramma per musica
Hasse's 'Olimpiade' was first performed in Dresden as the last opera seria before the beginning of that fateful Seven Years' War - with great success, as usual and as deserved. At the same time, it is the last opera festival in the last courtly carnival of the last glorious Polish-Saxon carnival. It can claim to be one of the most successful among the many acknowledged good works of its two creators.
Recorded by MDR Kultur on 31 May 1992, in the Dresden Semperoper, during the 1992 Dresden Music Festival, Dresden, Germany.