Credits:

Stephen Stubbs, Paul O’Dette

Description:

Agostino Steffani (16531728) was an Italian Baroque composer and organist who also served as a diplomat and Catholic clergyman. He was based primarily in Germany, particularly in Bavaria, and from 1688 served as court Kapellmeister in Hanover, where he built a brilliant career by composing numerous operas for the opera house completed the following year, in 1689. This work is an opera composed in 1688; the score, which had been housed in the Vienna Museum of the National Collection, was revived by Hengelblock at the Schwetzingen Festival in 2008. It was subsequently staged at the Royal Opera House in 2010 and in Boston in 2011. This performance, featuring Jarski and a ensemble of renowned Baroque singers, was recorded in the fall of 2013 as a joint production between the Boston Early Music Festival and Bremen Radio, marking the worlds first studio recording of this work.Warner M