
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.
Release Date: 11/6/2019
Runtime: 191 minutes
Languages: Italian
Director: François Roussillon
00Companies: Francois Roussillon et Associés, Opéra Comique
Countries: France
Francesca Aspromonte
Iole

Nahuel Di Pierro
Ercole

Giuseppina Bridelli
Deianira
Ray Chenez
Il Paggio

Francesca Aspromonte
Iole
Eugénie Lefebvre
Pasithea / Clerica / Terza Grazia / Secondo Pianeta
Dominique Visse
Licco

Giulia Semenzato
Venere / Bellezza / Cinzia
Luca Tittoto
Nettuno / Eutyro

Krystian Adam
Hyllo

Anna Bonitatibus
Giunone
Ensemble Pygmalion
Choeur et Orchestre
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