Cavalli's Il Xerse as farce in Martina Franca

Carlo Vistoli (Xerse) and Carlo Allemano (Ariodate)

Carolina Lippo (Romilda)

Cast of Il Xerse

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 28 July 2022

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Reviewed at Teatro Verdi, Martina Franca on 25 July 2022

Cavalli, Xerse

Federico Maria Sardelli, Conductor

Leo Muscato, Director

Andrea Belli, Set Designer

Giovanna Fiorentini, Costume Designer

Alessandro Carletti, Lighting Designer

Modo Antiquo

Carlo Vistoli, Xerse

Ekaterina Protsenko, Amastre

Carolina Lippo, Romilda

Dioklea Hoxha, Adelanta

Carlo Allemano, Ariodate

Gaia Petrone, Arsamene

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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.