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> Pinchgut Opera: Vivaldi's Juditha Triumphans
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David Walker as Holofernes
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Sydney’s talented opera company, Pinchgut Opera presented Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans in December 2007 for 4 nights only. Pinchgut presents glorious, yet unknown operas in beautiful venues in Sydney – getting you up close & personal to all the music and drama!
You may know Vivaldi’s Four Season but did you know Vivaldi wrote breathtaking operas? This remarkable work is one of the few operas written with a strong female hero who takes matters into her own hands- quite literally it turns out- as she cuts off her enemy’s head with his own sword. The heroic story of Judith will be the first professional performance in Australia and will include a cast of Australia’s favourite female voices.
This special work is conducted and directed from the harpsichord by Vivaldi expert Maestro Attilio Cremonesi (from Venice), with soloists Sally-Anne Russell, Sara Macliver, Fiona Campbell, Renae Martin and American counter tenor David Walker. The orchestra of the Antipodes plays on a fascinating array of period instruments and Cantillation will provide the chorus. The work has been fully staged by Mark Gaal, director, and Hamish Peters, designer.
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