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0:41 Overture 4:15 Act I 1:09:30 Akt ll 2:07:15 Akt lll From the State Opera Unter den Linden, Berlin, 2009 Opera in Three Acts with the Haydn's frequently puckish sense of humour Marlis Petersen - Angelica Pietro Spagnoli - Rodomonte Tom Randle - Orlando Magnus Staveland - Medoro Sunhae Im - Eurilla Victor Torres - Pasquale Alexandrina Pendatchanska - Alcina Freiburger Barockorchester René Jacobs - conductor Joseph Haydn - Orlando Paladino For more than 25 years René Jacobs has dedicated his life to baroque operas and works with the best ensembles for early music. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn, the renowned Freiburger Barockorchester and outstanding baroque opera singers such as Marlis Petersen, Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Pietro Spagnoli and Tom Randle present Haydn’s most successful opera at the Berliner Staatsoper. “Orlando Paladino“, written in 1782, was Haydn's most famous opera during his lifetime, with thirty performances in Esterháza in the first two years after its composition. The libretto, a “drama eroicomico“, gives scope to Haydn's frequently puckish sense of humour, as well as for his inventive melodic expression. Most semi-serious operas of the period typically inserted comic characters into an essentially serious story but Haydn expanded the comedy even into the more serious scenes.
