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Italian composer (1605-1650)
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Celebrating 17th-century Venice as a place of tolerance for gay artists - Infinite Refrain: Music of Love's Refuge
[…] - Giovanni Antonio Boretti (Venice 1670) Jorge Navarro Colorado 12. Oh quanti soli… Ahimè - Alessandro Stradella (Genoa 1679) Randall Scotting 13. Se pur destina e vole - Monteverdi (Venice 1619) Jorge Navarro Colorado 14. Ballo del Granduca - Giovanni Legrenzi(Venice 1691) instrumental 15. Entro l’orrida mole… Se per tè - G.A. Boretti (Venice 1670) duet 16. Con che soavità - Monteverdi (Venice 1619) Randall Scotting 17. Pur ti miro, pur ti good -Monteverdi/ Francesco Sacrati (Venice 1643) duetRandall Scotting (countertenor)Jorge Navarro Colorado (tenor)Academy of Ancient MusicLaurence CummingsRecorded 31 October - 2 November, St Augustine’s Kilburn, LondonSIGNUM CLASSICS SIGCD769 1CD [66:52] Support Planet Hugill: Buy Infinite Refrain from AmazonNever miss out on future posts by following usThe blog is free, but I'd be delighted if you were to show your appreciation by buying me a coffee.Elsewhere on this blogThe Monarch's Music: recorded as part of Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee celebrations and released to serendipitously […]
2020-06-29 06:39:48
Politics, Poetry & Personal Interest: Lully, King Louis XIV and the invention of French opera
[…] final attempt of the French nobility to do battle with the king, and they were humiliated. The Fronde, as witnessed by the young King Louis XIV, made him come to dislike Paris and to distrust the higher aristocracy. In the long-term, the Fronde served to strengthen Royal authority, but weakened the economy; the Fronde facilitated the emergence of absolute monarchy. Opera and Politics Set design by Torelli for Francesco Sacrati's La finta pazza, 1645, Paris Italian opera arrived in Paris in the 1640s and 50s thanks to the desire of Italian-born Cardinal Mazarin to import Italian culture. The first operas to be staged in France were imported from Italy, beginning with Francesco Sacrati's La finta pazza in 1645; French audiences gave them a lukewarm reception. Luigi Rossi’s Orfeo (1647) was the first opera to be specifically written for Paris. Monteverdi’s pupil Francesco Cavalli […]
2019-02-13 13:39:53
The 20 Greatest Operas of all time
[…] Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea (1643) Monteverdi gets to the hearts of his characters with music of spellbinding beauty and verve Much as Verdi’s Falstaff is a compendium of a lifetime’s musical interests, L’incoronazione di Poppea is a work in which a lifetime’s soundworlds contrast and collide. Musicologists have debated its authenticity: the overture has been attributed to Francesco Cavalli, and the final duet, ‘Pur ti miro’, has been claimed as the work of Benedetto Ferrari or Francesco Sacrati before being returned, as it were, to Claudio Monteverdi. Premiered in 1643, Monteverdi’s last opera is Venetian to the core: a morally ambiguous, multi-layered drama of court intrigues, contract killings and broken promises among the high- and low-born subjects of a psychotic emperor. When modern listeners shudder at the triumph of Cupid as Poppea is crowned, they should remember that in the wake of this apparent happy ending comes yet more violence. From Poppea […]
2019-01-09 09:01:23
Tenth anniversary: Opéra Royal de Versailles celebrates 10 years since the theatre was restored and returned to use
[…] with most of the surviving original stage machinery being destroyed in the post-War re-construction. All this was reversed during the 2007/2009 period of restoration of the theatre, as a theatre, bringing the space brilliantly back to life.The theatre's 2019 season, includes a new version of Gay's The Beggars Opera created by Ian Burton and Robert Carsen, with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, a very ironic piece with which to start the season. Francesco Sacrati's 1641 opera, La Finta Pazza was one of the first Italian operas to be seen in France and the first to be seen by King Louis XIV. (The fashion for Italian opera would not survive the anti-Italian feeling created by the civil war, the Fronde, which developed antagonism to the policies of the Italian-born Cardinal Mazarin into dislike of things Italian, including opera and castrati). La Finta Pazza will be performed by Leonardo García […]
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