Frontespizio dell’autografo vivaldiano de L’Olimpiade conservato presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino (Foà 39, c. 7r)
Accademia Vivaldi Advanced courses on the interpretation of Antonio Vivaldi’s music L’Olimpiade – ‘Agostino Steffani’ Music Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto.
From 3 to 22 February, the Accademia Vivaldi is organising an advanced training course for the preparation and staging of Antonio Vivaldi’s opera L’Olimpiade, on the occasion of the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics. The project is held in collaboration with Italian and European institutions, led by the ‘Agostino Steffani’ Music Conservatory in Castelfranco Veneto, as part of the NRRP programme ‘Musical Theatre and New Technologies (MTNT): Toward a New Paradigm in Opera Studies and Performance’, dedicated to the promotion of musical culture abroad, in particular musical theatre, through the rediscovery and exploration of Venetian opera over the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Vivaldi’s dramma per musica will be performed on 21 February for schools and on Sunday 22 February at 4 p.m. at the Teatro Comunale Mario Del Monaco in Treviso, conducted by Francesco Fanna and directed by Fabio Condemi.
L’Olimpiade 22 February 4pm
Belonging to the most brilliant period of the author’s poetic activity, L’Olimpiade was written by Pietro Metastasio and has always been considered one of his most accomplished creations. This celebration of love and youth by two pairs of lovers, set against the pastoral backdrop of a remote, Arcadian golden age, expresses in terms of crystalline beauty the essence of the sentimental inspiration of Metastasio’s genius. It features some of the most emblematic passages from composer Antonio Vivaldi’s opera, which follows the lovers’ reactions through a recitative accompanied by inexhaustible inventiveness, sensitive to the slightest change in psychological attitude.
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Performance staged on the occasion of the official closing of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Games.
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Ahead of the show, 45 minutes before the curtain rises, there will be an introductory meeting at the Ridotto del Teatro as part of the “Oltre la scena” (Beyond the Stage) series.
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Frontespizio dell’autografo vivaldiano de L’Olimpiade conservato presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino (Foà 39, c. 7r)
