L'Olimpiade d'Antonio Vivaldi

L'Olimpiade d'Antonio Vivaldi, 2024-07-19, 21-06-04, France 5 - “L'Olimpiade”: Vivaldi’s Olympic Games, a divine operatic fantasy At the beginning, a beautiful opera by Vivaldi set in the Olympic Games, at the end, a great joy of staging and singing. Or perhaps you have heard, it seems that Paris is hosting the Olympic Games this year. A golden opportunity, whether or not you care about sports, to discover this delightful opera by Vivaldi. Its plot? Nothing out of the ordinary: thwarted love affairs, disguises, and lots of misunderstandings and coincidences because, after all, the gods have their views that we struggle to embrace – just like pretty girls or handsome boys; it is in the order of things. However, Metastasio is a skilled librettist, and Vivaldi (expertly conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi), a composer of genius. If the plot is Greek and is set in Olympia itself,