Vivaldi wrote more than 40 operas, and substantially revived several of them for different productions. The music of his serious opera Montezuma (1733), about the conquest of Mexico by Fernando Cortes , has been lost, but the libretto survives.
Jean-Claude Maigoire has constructed an opera to this text following a common 18th-century practice of drawing on music from different sources. Because the language and expression of early eighteenth-century opera seria was fairly generalized, brilliant and passionate arias from several Vivaldi operas have been easily fitted to words which here explore the same emotions as in the originals. Sung in Italian.
La Grande Ecurie et la
Chambre du Roy, conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire. Discs