Il Paride Explained

Il Paride
Genre Header:	Opera
Composer:	Giovanni Andrea Bontempi
Image Upright:	1.3
Librettist:	Giovanni Andrea Bontempi
Language:	Italian
Premiere Location:	Dresden Castle

Il Paride is an opera in five acts composed by Giovanni Andrea Bontempi who also wrote the libretto. The first Italian-language opera to be given in Dresden, it was first performed on 3 November 1662 at the Dresden Castle to celebrate the marriage of Erdmuthe Sophie von Sachsen, the daughter of John George II, Elector of Saxony, and Christian Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.^{[1] [2]} The opera was revived on 21 June 2011 at the Potsdam Sanssouci Festival and on 24 August 2012 at the Tyrolean State Theatre as part of the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music.^[3]

Recordings

• Il Paride – RAI Orchestra and Chorus, Carlo Franci (conductor). Recorded 24 November 1963, Rome. Label: Voce (LP)

Further reading

• Torresi, Riccardo (2007). "Una proposta scenografica per Il Paride di Giovanni Andrea Angelini Bontempi" in Esercizi Musica e Spettacolo 20, nuova serie 11, 2006-2007, pp. 7–32. Morlacchi Editore.

External links

• Bontempi, Giovanni (1662). Il Paride (original libretto). Melchior Bergen
• Video from the 2012 Innsbruck performance (official YouTube channel of the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music)

Notes and References

1. Buelow, George J. (2004). A History of Baroque Music, p. 242. Indiana University Press.
2. Timms, Colin (1992). Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol. 1, p. 544 (reprinted by the Boston Public Library in notes to the original libretto)
3. [Innsbruck Festival of Early Music]