Cavalli: Hercules in Love
Francesco Cavalli, a natural successor to Monteverdi, was the most famous and influential Italian opera composer during the mid-17th century. Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister to the king, commissioned Cavalli to create a Parisian spectacle to celebrate the wedding of the ‘Sun King’ Louis XIV and the Infanta of Spain. Ercole amante (‘Hercules in Love’) was the flattering subject chosen for this regal extravaganza combining larger-than-life characters with mythology, and genuine human emotions with natural and cosmic phenomena. The result is a sumptuous Baroque spectacle, conceived on a vast scale in this lavish production by directors Valerie Lesort and Christian Hecq.
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Nahuel Di Pierro
Ercole
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Giuseppina Bridelli
Deianira
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Ray Chenez
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Francesca Aspromonte
Iole
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Eugénie Lefebvre
Pasithea / Clerica / Terza Grazia / Secondo Pianeta
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Dominique Visse
Licco
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Outis
Giulia Semenzato
Venere / Bellezza / Cinzia
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Luca Tittoto
Nettuno / Eutyro
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Norma
Krystian Adam
Hyllo
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Anna Bonitatibus
Giunone
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Ensemble Pygmalion
Choeur et Orchestre
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François Roussillon Director · Francesco Buti Writer
United States release February 12, 2021 · Produced in France · Production Opéra Comique
Production
Francois Roussillon et Associés
Production
Opéra Comique
Production
France
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Original title
Ercole Amante
Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
France · November 6, 2019
Premiere
United States · February 12, 2021
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