Pier Francesco CAVALLI / L'Hipermestra Etching by M Belloni after Silvio degli

Description

L'Hipermestra. Etching by M. Belloni after Silvio degli Alli depicting the "Camera" in Act I, scene 2 of the opera
Author:
CAVALLI, Pier Francesco 1602-1676
Title:
L'Hipermestra. Etching by M. Belloni after Silvio degli Alli depicting the "Camera" in Act I, scene 2 of the opera
Publication:
Firenze: Vincenzo Vangelisti, 1689
Description:
204 x 249 mm. On laid paper.
Slightly worn, browned, and foxed, primarily at margins; remnants of hinges to upper corners of verso.
Illusione e Pratica Teatrale 31.
"[Cavalli] was the most performed, and perhaps the most representative, composer of opera in the quarter-century after Monteverdi and was a leading figure, as both composer and performer, in Venetian musical life." Thomas Walker and Irene Alm in Grove Music Online.
L'Hipermestra, with text by Giovanni Andrea Moniglia (ca. 1630-1700) and sets by Ferdinando Tacca (1619-1689), was first performed in Florence in 1658. The libretto, with plates by Alli in large format, was published in that same year. The present plate is from the reissue of 1689, re-engraved and published in slightly smaller format. Sonneck p. 595.
Moniglia (1624-1700) "must be reckoned among the most original librettists of the 17th century... His Hipermestra (1658, music by Cavalli) and Ercole in Tebe (1661, music by Melani) set a standard for the festa teatrale." Robert Lamar Weaver in Grove Music Online.
Tacca (1619-1686) was an Italian architect and stage designer. "As well as designing buildings, such as the Teatro dell'Accademia degli Immobili (later della Pergola), built in Florence in 1656, he devised scenery, machines and apparatus for various performances and dynastic ceremonies, which are partly documented in engravings... The scenery and mechanisms for Cavalli's opera Hipermestra (libretto by G. A. Moniglia), performed at the Teatro degli Immobili in 1658 to mark the birth of the Spanish Infanta, are known from 13 engravings by Silvio degli Alli included in the published libretto." Mercedes Viale Ferrero in Grove Music Online.
Seller ID:
27478
Subject:
Art & Photographs
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