ARS MINERVA presents Olimpia Vendicata - A Modern World Premiere
An Opera composed by Domenico Freschi in 1682
The Plot
Olimpia Vendicata is Ariadne auf Naxos in a distinctly more 17th-century Italian key. Poor Olimpia, a Princess of Holland, is abandoned on a desert island by her faithless lover, Bireno. Kidnapped by pirates, she is made a slave at the elegant, sensuous court of Hibernia, where it seems everybody is amorous of somebody else. (Remember, this is fiction.) Imagine her surprise when Bireno crops up and begins wooing the Hibernian princess Alinda! With finesse and malice, Olimpia exacts poetic justice.
Creative Team/Production Staff
Director: Céline Ricci
Conductor: Matthew Dirst
Costumes: Marina Polakoff
Projections: Entropy
Lights: Del Medoff
Make up: Daniel Cartagena
Score transcription: Adam Cockerham
Translation: Joe McClinton
Stage Manager: Chase Kupperberg