Ercole Amante

Muziektheater, Amsterdam

July 4, 2009, 1:00 pm

Composer: Francesco Cavalli
Conductor: Ivor Bolton

Cast: Luca Pisaroni (Ercole); Veronica Cangemi (Iole); Anna Bonitatibus (Juno); Jeremy Ovenden (Hyllus); Anna Maria Panzarella (Deianira); Marlin Miller (Licco)

Born in 1602, Cavalli did as much as any composer to help establish opera as an accepted genre of musical entertainment. This drama relates the story of tragic violence that erupts when the great hero Hercules falls hopelessly in love.

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