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Composer: Cesti, Antonio (1623-1669)

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Wigmore Hall

Fri 19 Feb at 19:30

Monteverdi, Lambert, Lully, Kosma, Vanoni, Legrand, Merula, Tenco, Charpentier, Barbara, Cavalli, Cesti, Kramer Gorni

Bates, Semenzato, Kilsby, La Nuova Musica

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Stéphanie d'Oustrac (Orontea) and Mirco Palazzi (Creonte) © Vito Lorusso | Teatro alla Scala

Cesti’s Orontea: an early rarity at La Scala

By Laura Servidei

Physical comedy detracts from Pinchgut Opera's musically ravishing Orontea in Sydney

By Jeremy Eccles

17th-century L'Orontea in Budapest goes millennial

By Alexandra Ivanoff

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Pablo Agudo López © Giulia Charbit

Impertinence! Making Baroque music the Latin American way

By Lawrence Dunn

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Year of birth	1623
Year of death	1669
Nationality	Italy
Period	Baroque

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