Josef Misliveček (1737-81), dubbed the “Divine Bohemian” by his contemporaries and a friend of Mozart, premiered his version of L’Olimpiade, in traditional Italian operatic style and with a libretto quite faithful to Metastasio’s original text, in 1778 in Naples, a city in which he experienced great audience appreciation. On November 23 and 25, 2012, the Teatro Comunale in Bologna hosted the first modern-day revival of the opera produced by the Scuola dell’Opera Italiana. Oliver von Dohnányi conducts the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

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