Fact file
| Year of birth | 1623 |
| Year of death | 1669 |
| Nationality | Italy |
| Period | Baroque |
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L'Orontea: Intorno all'idol mioUpcoming eventsSee more...
CremonaXVII Century Opera prologues
Monteverdi, Caccini, Cavalli, Rossi, Castello, Ferrari, Cesti, Stradella, Scarlatti
Enrico Onofri; Il Pomo d'Oro; Francesca Aspromonte
InnsbruckTraumland Arkadien
Stradella, Kapsperger, Carissimi, Cesti, Salvatore, Storace, Pasquini
Emőke Baráth; Margret Köll; Michele Pasotti
LondonFrom Bach to Betjeman
de' Liguori, Cesti, Durante, Schubert, Carissimi, Purcell, Bach, Mozart, Traditional Spanish, Binge, McDowell, Traditional, Saint-Saëns, Quilter, Mendelssohn, Fauré, Gibbs, Seiber
Elizabeth Muir-Lewis; Sussex Song Makers; Jennie Beckwith; Katie Hoad-Hitchings; Lizzie Howard
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17th-century L'Orontea in Budapest goes millennial
Opera director András Almási-Toth’s whimsical updating of an early Baroque opera by Antonio Cesti switches the composer’s L'Orontea from 1656 to 2016.
Duetti d'amore - Sabadus and Baráth explore baroque rarities in Budapest
Every early music festival these days needs one or more star countertenors in their programme. At this year’s Müpa Budapest’s Régizene Fesztival, Valer Barna-Sabadus was featured together with homegrown soprano Emöke Bárath.
Friars just wanna have fun: Cesti's Orontea
A very naughty translation and some fine singing make for a delightfully comic evening of Cesti's recently rediscovered Orontea at Wigmore Hall.
Amorously enormously entangled
L'Orontea was premièred as turbulent Carneval entertainment in 1656. Now it is experiencing a fast-paced new staging as modern opera gag at Frankfurt Opera.
More than a drama queen: Joyce DiDonato in Amsterdam
It has been five years since mezzo Joyce DiDonato last sang in Amsterdam. In those five years, she won an Emmy Award, headed the cast of countless productions at the Met and Covent Garden, and has been recognized as one of the greatest opera singers of our time by the press and aficionados alike.
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