Gaspare Spontini’s “Le Metamorfosi di Pasquale,” was premiered in Venice in 1802. This one-act farce, on a libretto by Giuseppe Foppa was to be his last work for the Italian stage. After its debut, in fact, the young composer moved on to Paris and then to Berlin and the score of this work was lost until 2016, when it was unearthed in the library of the Dukes of Ursel in Belgium. This 2-album release is a world premiere recording of a Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini di Jesi and Fondazione Teatro La Fenice di Venezia coproduction. Baurzham Anderzhanov stars in the title role, alongside other impressive soloists including Carlo Feola, Michela Antenucci, Daniele Adriani, and others.

Based on a ponderous libretto by Metastasio (who defined his own work as “stellar”) Leonardo Vinci’s dramma per musica was premiered in Venice in 1726 and was triumphantly acclaimed. Since then, Siroe, Re di Persia was put to music by composers such as Vivaldi, Handel, Hasse, and Galuppi, to mention just a few. The story uses some of the elements of the plot of Partenope, almost as if it were a sequel moved to Persia. Siroe’s plot revolves around a family mystery mingled with passions, traitors en travesti, fatherly affection and filial honesty that echoes Shakespeare’s King Lear. Performed in concert version at Teatro San Carlo of Naples in 2018, this rare opera was chosen to open the theatre’s 281st season. Conductor Antonio Florio , specialist of the Neapolitan Baroque repertoire, revised the score.

PAGANINI: Couvent du Mont Saint Bernard (Le) / Concertino /

Chausson, E.: Concerto / Saint-Saens, C.: Violin Sonata No.

Paganini: 15 Quartets for Strings and Guitar (The), Vol. 2

Paganini, N.: Centone Di Sonate for Violin and Guitar, Vol.

ERNST: 6 Mehrstimmige Studien / WIENIAWSKI: L'ecole moderne

RAVEL / KODALY: Works for Violin and Cello

Paganini, N.: Historical Documents

PAGANINI: Variations on O mamma, mamma cara from Il carneval

Rinaldo Da Capua: La Zingara / Kehr, Monkewitz, Et Al, Release Date: 01/01/2011, Composer: Rinaldo di Capua, Performer: Kurt-Heinz Stolze, Josef Ulsamer, Annalisa Monkewitz, Rodolfo Malacarne, Conductor: G�nter Kehr, Orchestra/Ensemble: Mainz Chamber Orchestra, Number of Discs: 1, La Zingara Annalisa Monkewitz (Artist), Rodolfo Malacarne (Artist), Rinaldo Da Capua (Composer), Gunter Kehr (Conductor)

BELLINI: Norma (1831 Edition for 2 Sopranos)

As with Orpheus and Euridice: Jackie can not get over the loss of her first husband Jack (JFK). You descend into Hades and organized a happening in NY. Liz Taylor and Grace Kelly singing the blues, Andy Warhol painted Jackies Portrait, Maria Callas has a grand entrance with Aristotle Onassis. As the story goes, is clear: Callas presents Jackie in a singing duel after Onassis married the latter. On a libretto by Wayne Koestenbaum Daugherty wrote, in the US one of the most important and best-known composers of his generation, in 1995 on behalf of the Houston Grand Opera, a two-act work, the elements of opera, theater, rock and jazz in a tribute to the turbulent sixties years combined. Jackie O, Opera in two acts, Libretto by Wayne Koestenbaum. Directed by Damiano Michieletto. Starring Alice Quintavalla, Fiona McAndrew, Paul Carey Jones.

Gaetano Donizetti had big shoes to fill at his debut in Naples in 1823, arriving at the Teatro di San Carlo just after Rossini's departure, full of talent but still seeking his true voice. Alfredo il Grande is influenced by Rossini, but also shows hints of great things to come. The narrative is a celebration of heroism and magnanimous royalty, taking us to 9th century England where King Alfred the Great is on the run from the Vikings. Revived two centuries after the spectacular failure of it's premiere, this little-known opera seria can now stand as a reflection on humanitarian values and gestures of resistance against the destructiveness of war.

Gaetano Donizetti had big shoes to fill at his debut in Naples in 1823, arriving at the Teatro di San Carlo just after Rossini's departure, full of talent but still seeking his true voice. Alfredo il Grande is influenced by Rossini, but also shows hints of great things to come. The narrative is a celebration of heroism and magnanimous royalty, taking us to 9th century England where King Alfred the Great is on the run from the Vikings. Revived two centuries after the spectacular failure of it's premiere, this little-known opera seria can now stand as a reflection on humanitarian values and gestures of resistance against the destructiveness of war.