Appendix. Operas by Cavalli on DVD

La Calisto

Cavalli, Pier Francesco and Giovanni Faustini. La Calisto. Herbert Wernicke, director. René Jacobs, music director. Filmed in Brussels at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, 1996. Harmonia Mundi, 2006. See https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=32FE19CC0CF04D35.

La Didone

Cavalli and Giovanni Francesco Busenello. La Didone. Facoltà di Design e Arti IUAV—Venezia (laboratories directed by Carlo Majer), stage direction. Fabio Biondi, music director. Filmed in Venice at the Teatro Malibran in 2006. Dynamic, 2007. See https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL94E346E7E55D2695.

———. La Didone. Clément Hervieu Léger, director. William Christie, music director. Filmed in Caen at the Théâtre de Caen in 2011, for broadcast by France Télévisions. Opus Arte, 2012. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROyCHZOD_rY&feature=youtu.be.

Elena

Cavalli and Faustini; libretto completed by Niccolo Minato. Elena.1 Jean-Yves Ruf, director. Leonardo García Alarcón, music director. Filmed at the Festival Aix-en-Provence in 2013, for live broadcast on Medici.tv. Ricercar, 2014. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yns3M6T5xw&feature=youtu.be and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiGGCdrQ_LU&feature=youtu.be

Ercole amante

Cavalli and Francesco Buti. Ercole amante. David Alden, director. Ivor Bolton, music director. Filmed in Amsterdam at Het Muziektheater in 2009. Opus Arte, 2010. See https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD37D5F0412F8D261 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AVTlkFHI3g&feature=youtu.be.

Il Giasone

Cavalli and Giacinto Andrea Cicognini. Il Giasone. Christian Gagneron, director. René Jacobs, music director. Filmed in Innsbruck at the Festwoche der alten Musik, 1998 (sic: recte 1988). House of Opera, 2005. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cnjTi152jI&t=456s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yizeBQyrGJQ&t=16s.

———. Il Giasone. Mariame Clément, director. Federico Maria Sardelli, music director. Score revision by Alexander Krampe. Filmed in Antwerp at the Vlaamse Opera in 2010. Dynamic, 2012. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSOTx2Nlt-E&feature=youtu.be and https://youtu.be/TXiGF5G56Is.

La virtù de’ strali d’Amore

Cavalli and Faustini. La virtù de’ strali d’Amore. Facoltà di Design e Arti IUAV—Venezia (laboratories directed by Carlo Majer), stage direction. Fabio Biondi, music director. Filmed in Venice at the Teatro Malibran in 2008. Naxos, 2011. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz9MsKvXwO8.

1 Score for production based on Kristin Aviva Kane, “Francesco Cavalli’s Elena (1659): A Study and Edition” (Ph.D. diss., Cornell University, 2010).