opera notebook
some operas I have seen on videoFrancesco Cavalli, La Didone (1641)
libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello
Teatro La Fenice, Venice, 2006
- Conductor: Fabio Biondi
- Director: Francesca Cabrini & Davide Ortelli
- Set Designer: Serena Rocco & Alberto Nonnato
- Didone: Claron McFadden
- Enea: Magnus Staveland
Fabio Biondi both conducts and is concertmaster in his critical reconstruction of Cavalli's Aeneid epic.