Il Giustino

With this new recording, the madly epic and romantic opera, Il Giustino, finally receives its place in the spot-light, something that the history of music has denied it up until now. The fifty-eighth recording and eighteenth opera in the Vivaldi Edition, which began in 2000, solidifies the status of Vivaldi as the greatest of opera composers - and of

composers full stop. It needed the talent, charisma and poetic energy of a great conductor to bring back to life this gem, and it is Ottavio Dantone who assumes this mantle. With an Accademia Bizantina even more virtuosic and passionate than ever, a cast of high-flying soloists (Emoke Baräth, Delphine Galou, Ve-ronica Cangemi, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Silke Gaeng...) and instruments as rare as they are precious (such as the dreamlike psaltery that accom-panies the breathtaking air by Ana-stasio), Maestro Dantone brilliantly reincarnates, through this legendary Giustino, the human passions of yes-terday and today.