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Op verzoek deze opera van Hasse

18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a considerable quantity of sacred music.  Hasse was a pivotal figure in the development of opera seria and 18th-century music.
Despite claims that Hasse was the padre della musica, and despite the composer's massive popularity as a figure at the very forefront of 18th-century serious Italian opera, after his death Hasse's reputation vastly declined and his music lay mostly unperformed (with the exception of some of his sacred works, which were revived now and again in Germany). In particular, his operas sank without trace and revival only begun as the 20th century approached its end: Gluck's reforms took opera away from Hasse's style and Metastasio's Arcadian ideals to a new direction from which it would not return.

ARTEMISIA (1754)
Artemisia - Helene Schneiderman (soprano)
Daradano - Arno Raunig (countertenor)
Sebaste - William Kendall (tenore)
Idaspe - Randall K. Wong (soprano)
Erenice - Gabriele Rossmanith (soprano)
Oronte - Martina Borsi (mezzo-soprano)
Licandro - Derek Lee Ragin

Dresdner Musikfestspiele
Kammerchor Stuttgart
Kapelle Sagitariana Dresden
Frieder Bernius, conductor

Broadcast: Dresden, 27 May 1994