Antonio Vivaldi - Armida al Campo d'Egitto (1718) [Concerto Italiano]
3 CD | 2010 | Naive | Vivaldi Edition

Armida is the tenth opera in the Vivaldi Edition, and the second Vivaldi opera recorded by Rinaldo Alessandrini, after L’Olimpiade. This opera, which marks the end of the apogee of Vivaldi’s first Venetian period, has come down to us without the music to Act II. Adopting a practice that was common in Vivaldi’s day, Alessandrini has reconstructed the missing music using already-existing pieces by Vivaldi very carefully chosen with the help of the musicologist Frederic Delamea. A very successful restoration, enabling us to discover a new work by the brilliant Venetian composer! 



Furio Zanasi, baritono: Califfo
Marina Comparato, mezzo-soprano: Emireno
Romina Basso mezzo-soprano: Adrasto
Martin Oro, controtenore: Tisaferno
Sara Mingardo, contralto: Armida
Monica Bacelli, mezzo-soprano: Osmira
Raffaella Milanesi, soprano: Erminia

Concerto Italiano, dir. Rinaldo Alessandrini