AMFIPARNASSO, L' DVD

Orazio Vecchi's operatic precursor features a combination of a live performance and specially filmed episodes, is a collection of commedia snapshots, with comic narrations by Simon Callow. Directed by West End producer Peter Wilson. The work is the finest example of a form which flourished in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; the sequence of madrigals depicting the social life and pastimes of ordinary north-Italian folk as lived during the Carnival season or while partying or on a journey.

Release Date: 6/29/2004

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