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LA DIRINDINA – THE APPRENTICE SINGER
October 1, 2023, 9:00 pm
A comic opera in two parts
The opera La Dirindina is a comic interlude by Domenico Scarlatti. Shortly before its premiere for the 1715 Carnival at the Teatro Capranica in Rome, it was banned and withdrawn after being censored by the Vatican. The reason was the scandalous libretto by the venerable but irreverent and satirical Tuscan playwright Girolamo Gigli, which exposed the hypocrisies of the “high society” of that time, especially regarding the role of women, the issue of marriage, abortion, etc. The libretto was banned from printing, but a copy was discovered by Giovanni Battista Martini (famous as the teacher of both J.C. Bach and Mozart), who eventually contributed to the musical version which is being performed nowadays. The work was rediscovered and edited more recently by the musicologist Francesco Degrada and a first recording was made by Riccardo Muti in Naples in 1968.
Music: Domenico Scarlatti
Libretto: Girolamo Gigli
Direction/role teaching/set and costume design/translation/overdubbing: Grigorios Pyrialakos
Musical preparation: Phoivos Filkas
Dirindina: Maria Svarna
Don Carissimo: Grigorios Pyrialakos
Liscione: Dimitris Grigoris Kalogiannis
Ensemble Diverse and Bizarre
Anastasia Miliori, baroque violin
Kira Saplachidou, transverse flute
Nicoleta Chatzopoulou, viola da gamba
Sevastianos Motorinos, harpsichord
