Vivaldi – Ercole Su’l Termodonti (Pascoe) DVD – Mary-Ellen Nesi, Zachary Stains

To atone for killing his children in wrath, Ercole must carry out twelve tasks, one of which consists in stealing the arms from the Queen of the fierce Amazons. The enterprise, however, has unexpected results…The world premiere performance of a lost Vivaldi masterpiece, reconstructed by Alessandto Ciccolini and edited by Alan Curtis, directed and designed by John Pascoe for the Spoleto Festival del Die Mondi.