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The project for this recording continues the Monteverdi work of the San Felice Ensemble, traced with L’Incoronazione di Poppea, but in a new experimental guise. In fact, the idea emerged in 2020 in full pandemic...

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Release Date: November 19, 2021

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The Messa di Gloria belongs to the period before Cavalleria Rusticana: the lack of a choral or a fugue as well as the simple, almost ingenuous tonalities reveal the dominance of the operatic style over...

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Release Date: August 06, 2021

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The first performance of I Rantzau took place at the Pergola Theatre in Florence on 10th November 1892. It was a triumphal success right from the dress rehearsal; the ovations for the composer were so...

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Release Date: November 13, 2020

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Lodoletta was once part of the usual repertoire; nowadays we can consider this work one of the most interesting creations of Mascagni last style: a Mascagni who partly recycles the atmosphere of the youthful Fritz,...

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Release Date: June 11, 2021

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The College of Music of Sant’Onofrio, one of the wonders of baroque Naples, was founded in the late 1500s as a foundling institution to train orphans and abandoned children to work as artisans. Within a...

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Release Date: May 03, 2019

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This outstanding work was composed by Niccolo Jommelli in 1750, and features violin, viola, cello, oboe, French horn, trumpet, basso continuo, and voice. This work highlights Jommelli’s talent as a dramatic composer. The recording features...

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Release Date: April 08, 2016

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The libretto for La Romanziera e l’Uomo Nero was inspired by two plays performed in Paris in the 1820s: L’Homme Noir by Eugène Scribe and Jean-Henry Dupin in 1820 and Le Coiffeur et le Perruquier,...

Format: CD

Release Date: October 15, 2021

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The available information concerning Colombo, ossia La scoperta dell'America is dubious. Various hypotheses have been put forth in the last years, including the suggestion that the work is a fragment of an unfinished opera composed...

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Release Date: September 04, 2020

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A one-act opera, Elvida is a short “dramatic action” which in effect “has nothing historical”, as is stated in the libretto’s “topic”, it didn’t take inspiration from any drama, short novel, or previous texts by...

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Release Date: October 15, 2021

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In creating the basso continuo of the Six Sonatas op. 24, it was essential to consider the innovative spirit of Devienne: in its short existence it crossed the Ancien Régime, the French Revolution and finally...

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Release Date: November 13, 2020

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The Counter-Reformation was intended to elevate the spiritual feelings of the Catholic faithful and the oratorio was influenced by monodic song and the transformation of the lauda spirituale into a more dramatic, performance-oriented form. Indeed,...

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Release Date: March 13, 2020

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Learning the untimely death of his young colleague, Verdi wrote to Masheroni: “Poor Catalani! A good man and an excellent musician! What a pity! Congratulate Giulio (Ricordi) on the few and touching words he said...

Format: CD

Release Date: August 06, 2021

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This is not simply a recording of Norma as staged in January 2018 at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa. Its real value is that it is the superb conclusion to the career of Mariella...

Format: DVD

Release Date: July 19, 2019

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Like Alexander Borodin: doctor and chemist; Robert Schumann: expert on law; Arthur Schnitzler: doctor; Charles Ives: insurance broker; Giuseppe Sinopoli: doctor, Alfred Huber has divided his career between two professions and it was while a...

Format: CD

Release Date: February 05, 2021