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Phaedra tells her slave about Hippolytus (from Pompeii)
18 Nov 2007

PAISIELLO: Fedra

Fedra: Dramma per musica in two acts.

Streaming Audio

Giovanni Paisiello: Fedra

Agostino Lazzari (Ippolito), Angelica Tuccari (Aricia), Lucille Udovick (Fedra), Ortensia Beggiato (Tisifone), Renata Mattioli (Diana), Renato Cesari (Teseo), Thomas O'Leary (Plutone), Tommaso Frascati (Mercurio-Learco), Milan RAI Chorus and Orchestra, Angelo Questa (cond.)
Live performance c. 1958

 

Music composed by Giovanni Paisiello to a libretto by Luigi Salvioni after Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni.

First Performance: Naples, Teatro S Carlo, 1 January 1788

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