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Hotel Metamorphosis: Vivaldi reborn through Ovid's lens in Salzburg

Nadezhda Karyazina and Cecilia Bartoli in Hotel Metamorphosis
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Philippe Jaroussky in Hotel Metamorphosis
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Lea Desandre in Hotel Metamorphosis
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Cecilia Bartoli (center) and the company of Hotel Metamorphosis
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“Her coloratura was impeccable, her mezzo luminous in the upper register”
Reviewed at Haus für Mozart, Salzburg on 8 June 2025
Vivaldi, Hotel Metamorphosis
Gianluca Capuano, Conductor
Barrie Kosky, Director
Michael Levine, Set Designer
Klaus Bruns, Costume Designer
Franck Evin, Lighting Designer
Les Musiciens du Prince – Monaco
rocafilm, Video
Olaf Schmitt, Dramaturgy
Il Canto di Orfeo
Jacopo Facchini, Choirmaster / chorus director
Otto Pichler, Choreography
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo-soprano
Nadezhda Karyazina, Mezzo-soprano
Lea Desandre, Mezzo-soprano
Philippe Jaroussky, Countertenor
Angela Winkler, Mezzo-soprano
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