Wigmore Hall, LondonLa Nuova Musica deliver a knock-out performance of Francesco Conti's Greek tragedy " its first in modern timesFrancesco Conti's L'Issipile drew a blank with audiences at its Vienna premiere in 1732. Its failure, it would seem, was ascribed to its text, a problematic effort by the otherwise phenomenally successful Pietro Metastasio, who was generally regarded as the greatest and most influential li…
