opera notebook
some operas I have seen on videoGioachino Rossini, Ermione (1819)
libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola
Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1995
- Conductor: Andrew Davis
- Director: Graham Vick
- Set Designer: Richard Hudson
- Ermione: Anna Caterina Antonacci
- Andromaca: Diana Montague
- Oreste: Bruce Ford
A striking mise-en-abyme sets the action of this rarely-performed Trojan-War opera inside a vintage opera house.