Palau de les Arts de Valencia: Gluck - Le Cinesi

The work is very much in the vein of the exoticism so popular in its time. Le Cinesi reflects cultural overlap between the between the Austrian court and the distant Chinese court. And so, the tedious and idle life of the three female protagonists, who are kept strictly out of the company of men and are curious to know how women live in other lands, reflects life in the court of Vienna, where the archduchesses had to observe life at a distance from even their closest subjects.

In Le Cinesi, Metastasio gives a lesson on the different forms of theatre. The journey through the different dramatic styles – pastoral, comedy and tragedy – proposed by the three women and submitted for value judgement, is a way to express both a written text and song, while outlining the structural nature of theatre.

CAST:

CAST
Lisinga: Silvia Tro Santafé
Sivene: Désirée Rancatore
Tangia: Ann Hallenberg
Silango: Anicio Zorzi Giustiniani
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana


Music: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Conductor: Fabio Biondi

HD 1080