Giovanni Battista Pergolesi L'OLIMPIADE (1735)

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi L'OLIMPIADE, (1735)
Opera seria. Libretto by Pietro Metastasio.
L'OLIMPIADE
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi L'OLIMPIADE, (1735)
Opera seria. Libretto by Pietro Metastasio.
Clistene - Raul Gimenez
Aristea - Lyubov Petrova
Argene - Yetzabel Arias Fernandez
Licida - Jennifer Rivera
Megacle - Sofia Soloviy
Aminta - Antonio Lozano
Alcandro - Milena Storti
Conductor - Alessandro De Marchi
Director - Italo Nunziata
Set - Luigi Scoglio
Costumes - Ruggero Vitrani
Light - Patrick Latronica
Academia Montis Regalis
Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini
SYNOPSIS:
Megacle arrives in Sicyon just in time to enter the Olympic Games under the name of Licida, a friend who once saved his life. Unknown to Megacle, Licida is in love with Aristea, whose hand is to be offered to the winner of the games by her father, King Clistene. Licida, once betrothed to Princess Argene of Crete, is unaware that Megacle and Aristea already love each other, and he subsequently tells his friend of the prize. Aristea and Megacle greet each other fondly, but Megacle now feels bound by his promise to compete as Licida. Meanwhile, Argene arrives in Olympia disguised as a shepherdess, to win back Licida.
Megacle wins the games, confesses the truth to Aristea and departs, broken-hearted. When Licida comes to claim her, Aristea reproaches him, as does the disguised Argene, much to his dismay. Aminta, tutor to Licida, reports that Megacle has drowned himself, and King Clistene, apprised of the deception, banishes Licida.
Argene prevents the desperate Aristea from suicide, Megacle is rescued by a fisherman, and Licida contemplates the assassination of the king. Aristea pleads mercy for Licida and Argene offers herself in his place; as proof that she is a princess, she shows Clistenes a chain given her by Licida. He recognizes it as belonging to his son, abandoned in infancy to forestall the prophecy that he would kill his father. Licida, reinstated, accepts Argene, leaving his sister Aristea to Megacle.