Baroque rivalries at Theater an der Wien

I contending "prima donnas", there are only more in the soap operas private television stations that compete quote bringing to the price of the Jungle Queen. Older Opera Visitors can, however, still clearly remember how the two prima donnas Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi have media coverage aligned its heyday some Unfeinheiten.
The most famous rival prima donnas of music history are undoubtedly the warring Faustina Bordoni and Handel Stars Cuzzoni. Your on June 6, 1727 be transferred at a performance of Bononcini's opera Astianatte on stage dispute that - cheered on by the London audience - degenerated into insults and fisticuffs, has gone down in the annals of the history of opera. In memory of these two great prima donnas of the first half of the 18th century Simone Kermes and Vivica Genaux have compiled a wild baroque evening full of rarities and discoveries from the repertoire of the Bordoni and the Cuzzoni in all friendship with Baroque Rivalries in which not only compositions by Georg Friedrich Handel and Johann Adolf Hasse many arias and duets today almost forgotten composers such as Antonio Lotti, Giovanni Porta and Giuseppe Arena for the first time brought back to blades.