Vivaldi - L'Olimpiade | WDR 3 | La Cetra Barockorchester Basel

The La Cetra Barockorchester Basel plays Antonio Vivaldi's opera L'Olimpiade under the direction of Andrea Marcon. Fraud and sex at the Olympic Games. The librettist Metastasio talks about this in this opera. The Cretan Licida wants to win the prize - the king's daughter Aristea. The concert of the Days of Ancient Music in Herne. At the ancient Olympic Games a general armistice, a ban on legal disputes, and even the death penalty was imposed. In addition, absolute chastity was demanded of the athletes. The Cretan Licida calls all this into question. He wants to win the princess Aristea, who has been degraded to a trophy, at any price. He does not even shy away from an assassination attempt on her father. In 1734 Antonio Vivaldi set Pietro Metastasio's libretto, which can be read as a moral princely mirror, to music in a rousing opera. At the end of Tage Alter Musik in Herne, she can be heard under the direction of Andrea Marcon with an excellent ensemble of singers and the brilliant La Cetra Baroque Orchestra. More: https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/musik/...