The read
A Balasaur Score of 100 out of 100, drawn from TMDB 10/10. It runs long at 3h 11m.
Synopsis
Francesco Cavalli, a natural successor to Monteverdi, was the most famous and influential Italian opera composer during the mid-17th century. Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister to the king, commissioned Cavalli to create a Parisian spectacle to celebrate the wedding of the ‘Sun King’ Louis XIV and the Infanta of Spain. Ercole amante (‘Hercules in Love’) was the flattering subject chosen for this regal extravaganza combining larger-than-life characters with mythology, and genuine human emotions with natural and cosmic phenomena. The result is a sumptuous Baroque spectacle, conceived on a vast scale in this lavish production by directors Valerie Lesort and Christian Hecq.
Ratings
1 audience votes
Key crew
- François RoussillonDirector
- Francesco ButiWriter
Cast
- Nahuel Di PierroErcole
- Giuseppina BridelliDeianira
- Ray ChenezIl Paggio
- Francesca AspromonteIole
- Eugénie LefebvrePasithea / Clerica / Terza Grazia / Secondo Pianeta
- Dominique VisseLicco
- Giulia SemenzatoVenere / Bellezza / Cinzia
- Luca TittotoNettuno / Eutyro
- Krystian AdamHyllo
- Anna BonitatibusGiunone
- Ensemble PygmalionChoeur et Orchestre