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A Captivating Evening
Vivaldi's 'La Sena Festeggiante',
reviewed by MIKE WHEELER
A simple thumb-nail definition of the eighteenth-century genre of the 'serenata' might be a cross between opera, secular oratorio and cantata, performed in costume but otherwise without staging. The singers usually represent allegorical characters, and there is little or no plot. (Handel's Acis and Galatea would seem to be an exception in these two respects, though it fits the bill in others.)
Copyright © 2 August 2016
Mike Wheeler,
Derby UK
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