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Nick Jones <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:07:16 -0400
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Arturo Llamas Orenday wrote:

>Yesterday I was listening a marvelous disc ...  [of an aria from]
>"Orontea" by Cesti.  ...  The question is: Do you Know is there avaible
>any record by the opera complete?

Concise synopsis at
http://www.naxos.com/NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Orontea.htm

Discussion of the opera at http://www.hoasm.org/VIIF/VIIFBalletOpera.html

Opera published by Wellesley College [Wellesley, Mass., USA], 1973. xvii
p., score (272 p.) 29 cm. Edited by William Holmes.

amazon.com lists a complete recording (Harmonia Mundi), but it's out of
stock (probably out of print).

3 arias recorded on Harmonia Mundi HMX 2901018 (performer: Concerto
Vocale.  Soloist not listed)

1 aria recorded by Benjamino Gigli on IDI 6350

Nick Jones
Atlanta, Ga.

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