Smareglia: Il vassallo di Szigeth

$17.49
Label
Bongiovanni
Release Date
November 19, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Smareglia, Antonio
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana
    • PERFORMER
      Coro Ab Harmoniae, Cerutti
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 19, 2021
    • UPC
      8007068259427
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GB2594/95-2
    • LABEL
      Bongiovanni
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals

A product of German, Slav and Italian influences, Antonio Smareglia (1854-1929) is a thoroughly Mitteleuropean composer yet very much his own man, a perfect example of the music of the Trieste-Istria area. Il Vassallo di Szigeth inaugurated the Vienna Hofoper (today Staatsoper) season on 4 October 1889 which was also the name-day of the Emperor Franz Josef who attended the performance and was as enthusiastic as the rest of the audience. The highly favorable reaction of the powerful critic Eduard Hanslick and Johannes Brahms (both were ferociously anti-Wagner), proves that Smareglia's opera was anything but Wagnerian, in spite of the musician admiration for Wagner. The Vienna Hofoper took their production of Il Vassallo di Szigeth on tour to New York, making it the most celebrated opera in the repertoire and enabling Smareglia to build on its success in 1893 with Cornill Schutt.