A recording of the Festa teatrale La corona d'Arianna (1726) from the Fux Opera Festival at the festival Styriarte is the first release of this opera. The cast is excellent with Monica Piccinini and others, the Ensemble Zefiro performs under the direction of Alfredo Bernardini, the choruses are sung by the Arnold Schoenberg Choir.
Performed in times of pandemic, this version is unfortunately a questionable Corona experiment in two senses: the work has been severely shortened, two of the total of seven roles deleted without replacement (the tenor Asterio and the bass Simardo). The booklet contains a superficial text by Karl Böhmer and an attempt by the conductor to justify the fragmentary recording (although the deleted characters are confused with those from the Serenata Psiche). Thus, one will have to wait even longer for an adequate recording of Fux's Corona d'Arianna.