


Alessandrini heads to Rome immediately afterwards to record the work for release in naïve’s celebrated Vivaldi Edition, after which he performs his concert version of Armida at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien (October 22). The title role will be performed by the Italian contralto Sara Mingardo, and Alessandrini will conduct his Concerto Italiano, which this season celebrates its 25 th anniversary. The second act of the three-act opera, which debuted in Venice in 1718 and was revived in 1738 (the first and last known performances respectively), has long been missing, but Alessandrini has reconstructed it and his realization of the complete opera will be performed in a concert version at Paris’s Salle Pleyel on October 10. Rinaldo Alessandrini wears many hats in the upcoming revival of Vivaldi’s opera Armida, and the first is as a musical repairman. Rinaldo Alessandrini brings Armida to Vivaldi Edition
