Add to that hundreds upon hundreds of sacred works. However, Verdi’s concerti do indeed resonate, and there are a lot of them: over five hundred in number. For better or for worse, the great bulk of these operas have fallen into obscurity their artificial story lines and formulaic construction don’t resonate well with modern audiences.
He might just as easily – and accurately – have been called “The Red Violinist” or Il Rosso Compositore: “The Red Composer”.Īll together, Vivaldi composed 49 “serious operas” in the ornate Venetian style that was all the international rage at the time. Vivaldi came to be known il prieto rosso (“The Red Priest”) for two excellent reasons: he had bright red hair and was trained as a Catholic priest. Yes, I know we are all “one-of-a-kind” and that that phrase is way overworked, but truly, Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was a genre unto himself! On Ma– 341 years ago today – the Italian composer, violinist, priest and rapscallion Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice. You still have 67% to discover.Probable portrait of Antonio Vivaldi, ca. It was there that Vivaldi and his father acted as impresario in 1705.
After paying tribute to the Anglo-Saxon culture of her childhood in Long Time Ago, the mezzo, who inherited from her father (the composer and radio producer Pierre Charvet) the art of storytelling, has just published Teatro Sant'Angelo.Ī fascinating dive into the life and repertoire of this small private Venetian theater, now disappeared, inaugurated at the end of the seventeenth century and located in the square of the same name - equidistant from the Rialto and the Basilica of San Marco. She admits: " To imagine Antonio Vivaldi behind a desk, signing contracts, struggling with money problems, bad press and everything that could make life a small independent theater at the time, it's quite unusual." Yet it is this little-known facet of the Red Priest that Adèle Charvet was interested in for the needs of her second album, at Alpha.
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