Tommaso Traetta's Armida revived in Martina Franca

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 28 July 2014

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Reviewed at Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca on 27 July 2014

Traetta, Armida

Diego Fasolis, Conductor

Juliette Deschamps, Director

Vanessa Sannino, Costume Designer

Nelson Willmotte, Set Designer

Roberta Mameli, Armida

Marina Comparato, Rinaldo

Federica Carnevale, Fenicia

Maria Meerovich, Artemidoro

Leonardo Cortellazzi, Idraote

Leslie Visco, Argene

Mert Süngü, Ubaldo

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Lorenzo Fiorito

Lorenzo Fiorito holds degrees in Humanities and in Languages and Literatures, and a Phd in Languages for Special Purposes. He is a lecturer in historical musicological subjects at the Pegaso University, Naples, the Universitas Mercatorum, Rome and MEDEA Higher Education Institution, Malta, currently researching musicology as a special language. He is a member of the National Music Critics Association and of the Italian Society of Musicology. He edited a series of volumes in Musicology and History of Music for the publisher Diana Edizioni, mainly concerning the Neapolitan School of Music of the 18th century, and is the founder and artistic director of the “Francesco Durante Festival” in Frattamaggiore.

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