Niccolò Jommelli (1714-1774): Didone abbandonata

Opera in 3 acts

Libretto: Pietro Metastasio,
version of the second performance in Stuttgart

Orfeo C 381 953 F (3 CDs)

CD 1: Act 1 (64'38)
CD 2: Act 2 (56'13)
CD 3: Act 3 (48'24)

Arno Raunig has only one aria:
Tu mi scorgi al gran disdegno (CD 1 [11], 4'02)


DRAMATIS PERSONAE:

Didone, Queen of Carthage: Dorothea Röschmann (soprano)
Enea, Hero of Troyes: Martina Borst (mezzo-soprano)
Iarba, King of the Moors: William Kendall (tenor)
Selene, Didone's first maid: Mechthild Bach (mezzo-soprano)
Araspe, Iarba's valet: Daniel Taylor (countertenor)
Osmida, Didone's valet: Arno Raunig (sopranista)

Stuttgarter Kammerorchester (on modern instruments, but with natural horns)
Ulrich Hübner, corno da caccia
György Bognar, cello
Detlef Bratschke, harpsichord

conductor: Frieder Bernius

recording: october 24 - 28, 1994, Kirche der Karlshöhe, Ludwigsburg/Germany