Vivaldi Edition Vol. 58 - Il Giustino

Delphine Galou (Giustino), Emöke Barath (Arianna), Silke Gäng (Anastasio), Ana Maria Labin (Leocasta), Ariana Vendittelli (Amantio), Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (Vitaliano), Alessandro Giangrande (Andronico, Polidarte)

Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone

The opera seria ingredients of rebellion, intrigue, crossed love, jealousy and the supernatural feature in a colourful score with felicitous self-borrowings. Ottavio Dantone’s fine cast of singers... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2019, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 7th Dec 2018
Catalogue No: OP30571
Label: Naive
Series: Vivaldi Edition

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Vivaldi: Il Giustino

Delphine Galou (Giustino), Emöke Barath (Arianna), Silke Gäng (Anastasio), Ana Maria Labin (Leocasta), Ariana Vendittelli (Amantio), Emiliano Gonzalez Toro (Vitaliano), Alessandro Giangrande (Andronico, Polidarte)
Accademia Bizantina
Ottavio Dantone

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With this new recording, the madly epic and romantic opera, Il Giustino, finally receives its place in the spotlight, something that the history of music has denied it up until now. The fifty-eighth recording and eighteenth opera in the Vivaldi Edition, which began in 2000, solidifies the status of Vivaldi as the greatest of opera composers - and of composers full stop.

It needed the talent, charisma and poetic energy of a great conductor to bring back to life this gem and it is Ottavio Dantone who assumes this mantle.

With an Accademia Bizantina even more virtuosic and passionate than ever, a cast of high-flying soloists (Emőke Baráth, Delphine Galou, Verónica Cangemi, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Silke Gäng) and instruments as rare as they are precious (such as the dreamlike psaltery that accompanies the breathtaking air by Anastasio), Maestro Dantone brilliantly reincarnates, through this legendary Giustino, the human passions of yesterday and today.

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March 2019

The opera seria ingredients of rebellion, intrigue, crossed love, jealousy and the supernatural feature in a colourful score with felicitous self-borrowings. Ottavio Dantone’s fine cast of singers includes Delphine Galou in the title role, who declaims with even-toned clarity. Altogether a splendid achievement.

March 2019

Il Giustino is among the most beautiful and cogent of Vivaldi’s operas...and Dantone finds a strong sense of unity and purpose within it. Rhythms are crisp and incisive, textures sensuous and often startlingly immediate. There’s plenty of swagger and bravado in the Accademia Bizantina’s playing...The whole thing is hugely enjoyable, consistently engaging and highly recommended.

December 2018

From the outset of the overture, the listener is fully engaged, admiring the commitment and virtuoso playing of the Accademia Bizantina…the cast is state-of-the-art by current Italian Baroque opera standards…For me the palm here goes to the mezzo Silke Gäng’s rich, silky singing of Anastasio…Unsurprisingly, Delphine Galou’s eponymous hero is also memorable…Baráth’s Arianna completes a trio of principals of the highest quality.

Vivaldi Edition Vol. 58 - Il Giustino

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