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Chelsea Baratz

Haymarket Opera Company * Vinci: Artaserse [New CD] Pop Rock is "a unique badge of"Among the most impressive period performance ensembles around today" (Musical America), Haymarket Opera Company presents early 18th century master Leonardo Vinci's rare operatic gem, Artaserse (1730). A prominent figure of the Neapolitan School of opera, whose work influenced composers like Johann Adolph Hasse and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Vinci's three act opera seria centers on the Persian prince, Artaserse, who must bring hisfather's murderer