Salome 1675 synopsis

Salome 1675 synopsis
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The oratorio San Giovanni Battista was written for performance on Palm Sunday in the Holy Year of 1675 where some fourteen oratorios were commissioned by the confraternity of the church of San Giovanni dei Fiorentini in Rome—an auspicious event. San Giovanni Battista is a deeply ‘Baroque’ score, vibrant, rhythmically insistent, requiring singers to perform phrases of difficult fiorituras or deeply moving legato lines. The libretto is dramatic and emotionally vivid, and the music is closely tied to the text, creating a distinctly operatic atmosphere—described by the disc’s conductor Alessandro De Marchi as ‘a true Salome’.

Salome 1675 synopsis

Texten följer Markusevangeliet i Bibeln. Johannes Döparen tillhörde en sträng grupp av esséer. Han blev en politisk riskfaktor och av den anledningen lät Herodes avrätta honom. Genom texten i Markusevangeliet får vi kännedom om Johannes Döparen, en äldre vän till Jesus och den som senare döpte Jesus i floden Jordan. I oratoriet som Confidencen framför utspelas konflikten mellan Johannes Döparen och kungadottern Salome.

IN ENGLISH

Italian Baroque composer Alessandro Stradella’s dramatic 1675 oratorio, San Giovanni Battista, revolves around the life of John the Baptist and Herod’s obsession with Salome. For this oratorio, Stradella divided the orchestra into what would later be called ripieno and concertino – a larger orchestral group and a small group of solo strings. This approach not only made this piece distinct from other religious work of the Baroque era but also had major implications for the development of the Italian Baroque instrumental tradition.
UPPHOVSPERSONER
Musik: Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682)
PREMIÄR
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OPERAROLL OCH RÖSTTYP

Roll Rösttyp
Herodes baryton
Herodias mezzosopran
Salome sopran
Johannes Döparen mezzosopran
Rådgivaren tenor
Berättare
Solokvartett
Love Enström
Jenny Ohlson
Joakim Schuster
Anna Zander

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