PROGRAM NOTES
Background to the story Note by Robert Hess
Thirteen years prior to the action, Costanza, her husband Gernando and her little sister Silvia were shipwrecked on an uninhabited island. Leaving Costanza and Silvia behind, Gernando searches for help, but is captured and enslaved by pirates. For all these years, Costanza has believed herself betrayed and abandoned by her husband.
The opera
After the dramatic and agitated overture (interrupted by a wistful middle…
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