Today's Thursday Opera Matinee is "La vera costanza" or "True Constancy" by Joseph Haydn. The story follows the trials and tribulations of the heroine as she is abandoned by her mad lover. Written for the Eszterházy court in 1779, the opera has many of the attractions that people love in the operas of Mozart. Recorded at the Haydn Festival in Bruhl.http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03w0j40
Anyone listening? Haydn’s operas seem to be rather neglected. Are they not very good? I don't know much about them.
Anyone listening? Haydn’s operas seem to be rather neglected. Are they not very good? I don't know much about them.