COMPANY: Dynamic
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Marc'Antonio Ziani

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Born in Venice around 1652, Marc’Antonio Ziani was an eminent
operatic composer who, at the zenith of his career, moved to serve
the Habsburgs in Vienna, where he was to die in 1715. Damira
placata is the second of his operas and its plot centres on Damira,
a queen in ancient Egypt, and her struggles to win back the love of
King Creonte. Conceived for the puppet theatre, the singers and
instrumentalists were hidden from sight to heighten the illusion.
It is a quintessential Venetian opera – declamation melts into
eloquent musical gestures, recitatives are full of pathos, arias have
constant rhythm, and the central characters are strongly defined.