Mitridate

Submitted by Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (LR-228514). Mitridate Nicola Porpora The occasion this season to hear twice Mitridate a month apart, Mozart’s version in March and this evening the rarer version of Porpora. Michael Spyres | Mitridate Chelsea Zurfluh | Laodice Madison Nonoa | Tigrano Arianna Vendittelli | Oronta Margherita Sala | Farnace Alex Rosen | Arbate Andrea Buccarella | conducting il Pomo d’Oro Chanté Sung in Italian, with French / English surtitles. Running time: approximately 2h30. In brief: the Neapolitan Porpora was one of the leading composers of the Baroque period and Handel's main rival on the London stage. Each ran his own theatre: Royal Academy for Handel and L’Opéra de la Noblesse for Porpora. Master of the Farinelli, Caffarelli and Porporino castrati, and close to Senesino, these star performers did a lot for his success in English lands. But also will ruin it by their demands of staggering cachets. Mitridate is the last opera he wrote for London based on Racine’s eponymous tragedy with a high-flying cast (including Senesino and Farinelli). If we know the version that the young Mozart will compose a few years later, it is also urgent to (re)discover this masterpiece of the Neapolitan school Production Théâtre des Champs-Elysées