EMPATHETICALLY PATHETIC VIVALDI

ANTONIO VIVALDI — L’OLIMPIADE — 1734 — RENÉ CLEMENCIC CONDUCTOR — 1990

This opera, L’Olimpiade by Vivaldi, is on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio written in 1733 for Antonio Caldara. But then dozens of other composers used the plot and the libretto in many different ways but always with an operatic dimension. Vivaldi was only one of them, and it was used all over…