Opera Profile: Leonardo Vinci’s ‘Artaserse’
Photo Credit: Concerto Köln Much like his contemporaries during the 18th century, Leonardo Vinci, a highly important but relatively overlooked Italian composer from the first-half of the 18th century whose 40 operas have gone relatively ignored by contemporary opera and early opera alike, used mythology and extant fiction like everyone else at his time. His final opera, composed the year {…}