La Dori — HDVDARTS

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Pietro Antonio Cesti La Dori opera to libretto by Giovanni Filippo Apolloni. Directed 2019 by Stefano Vizioli at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music. Stars Francesca Ascioti (Dori), Rupert Enticknap (Oronte), Federico Sacchi (Artaserse), Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (Arsinoe), Emőke Baráth (Tolomeo), Bradley Smith (Arsete), Pietro di Bianco (Erasto), and Alberto Allegrezza (Dirce). Ottavio Dantone conducts the Accademia Bizantina. Set design by Emanuele Sinisi; costum design by Anna Maria Heinreich; lighting design by Ralph Kopp; choreography by Pierluigi Vanelli. Directed for TV by Karen Katchatryan. Sung in Italian. Released 2020, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA

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