Francesco Cavalli |

ʻO Francesco Cavali

ʻO ka haku mele ʻItalia, haku kaulana o ke kula opera Venetian. Ua hana ʻo ia i kāna ʻano operatic kumu ponoʻī. Ua lawe ʻia ke kaulana o Cavalli e ka opera Dido (1641, Venice). Aia kekahi o kāna mau mele i loko o ka repertoire o nā hale opera. Aia ma waena o lākou ʻo Ormindo (1644, libretto na G. Faustini, i hoʻokumu ʻia ma 1967 ma ka Glyndebourne Festival), Jason (1649, Venice), Callisto (1651, Venice, libretto na G. Faustini e pili ana i nā Metamorphoses a Ovid), ” Xerxes” ( 1654, Venice), "Erismene" (1656).

Ma ka huina, ua kākau ʻo ia i 42 mau keaka e pili ana i nā kumuhana moʻolelo a me ka mōʻaukala. Ma waena o nā mea hoʻolaha o kāna hana ʻo Leppard, ka mea mele kaulana a me ke alakaʻi ʻo Jacobs.

E. Tsoodokov