Performances from the annual Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, New York, continue on Classical 90.5 at noon this Saturday, November 14, with a broadcast of Cato in Utica by Antonio Vivaldi, with a libretto by Pietro Metastasio that was originally written for Leonardo Vinci's 1728 opera. The performance will be sung in Italian and will run approximately two hours. Ryan Brown conducts.
Passion and politics collide in Vivaldi's exquisite setting of Metastasio's poetic depiction of Cato the Younger.
“I love the early operas. The Vivaldi masterwork Catone in Utica is especially enthralling with its spectacular instrumentation that feels new and edgy and always exhilarating,” director Tazewell Thompson said. “Complex and conflicted characters are passionately expressing their story through brilliant vocals with highly entertaining flourishes and ornamentations. Sublime.”
THE CAST
Marzia: Megan Samarin
Arbace: Eric Jurenas
Cato: Thomas Michael Allen
Caesar: John Holiday
Fulvio: Allegra De Vita
Emilia: Sarah Mesko
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