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Antonio Sartorio
Giulio Cesare in Egitto
Edited by Craig Monson
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ISBN 0-89579-254-0 |
(1991) 322 pp. |
$88.00 |
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ISBN 978-0-89579-254-9 (13-digit) |
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Scarcely any operas from the period between Cavalli and Alessandro Scarlatti
have been published in modern editions. Antonio Sartorio's Giulio Cesare
in Egitto, first performed in Venice in 1676, reduces this gap. The
present edition reconstructs the versions from both the Venetian premiere
and the Naples revival of 1680. The opera illustrates the flexible intermingling,
characteristic of this period, of dramatic recitative and the incipient
Da Capo aria, and also serves as an interesting foil for Handel's popular
Giulio Cesare, based on the same libretto and possibly even some
of Sartorio's music.
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