This hour features a new, special CD with early music. Parts of the 3CD Niobe, Regina di Tebe, an opera by Agostino Steffani by Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs.
Agostino Steffani (1653-1728)
Dance music: Melchior d’Ardespin (1643-1717)
Libretto: Luigi Orlandi, after Metamorphoses
– Niobe, Regina di Tebe (1688): parts from act I and II
Anfione: Philippe Jaroussky, alto
Niobe: Karina Gauvin, soprano
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra conducted by Paul O’Dette and Stephen Stubbs
Label: Erato 2015
