Scarlatti's Griselda at Martina Franca

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 02 August 2021

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“Soprano Carmela Remigio sang the cast-aside queen with a remarkably strong vocal appeal”

Reviewed at Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca on 29 July 2021

Scarlatti, Griselda

George Petrou, Conductor

Rosetta Cucchi, Director

Tiziano Santi, Set Designer

Claudia Pernigotti, Costume Designer

Pasquale Mari, Lighting Designer

Raffaele Pe, Gualtiero

Carmela Remigio, Griselda

Mariam Battistelli, Costanza

Krystian Adam, Corrado

Miriam Albano, Roberto

Francesca Ascioti, Ottone

Coro Ghislieri

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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.

Scarlatti's Griselda receives a regal staging in Martina Franca