The world première recording of Gluck’s magnificent opera seria Il Trionfo di Clelia has been completed in Athens, at the Megaron Musikis, the most important venue in Greece and one of the most important theatres in Europe.

Giuseppe Sigismondi de Risio conducted Armonia Atenea Orchestra on period instruments.

The recording is now being edited and will be released at the beginning of 2012 by the famous German label MDG.

The amazing difficulties of the score require an extraordinary musical and vocal ability. The cast of the recording has been selected among the best singers on the world scene, and is absolutely outstanding:

Clelia

Helène Le Corre, soprano

Orazio

Mary-Ellen Nesi, mezzosoprano

Tarquinio

irini Karaianni, mezzosoprano

Porsenna

Vassilis Kavayas, tenore

Larissa

Burçu Uyar, soprano

Mannio

Florin Ouatu, countertenor

Music by

Chrisztof Willibald von Gluck

(world premièere recording)

Giuseppe Sigismondi de Risio, conductor

Armonia Atenea (a project of Athens Camerata)

soon on CD by MDG

photograph by Ilias Sakalak