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2020-08-24 13:53:52
Giovanni Animuccia, 2020
[…] figures of Florence, such as the famous priest Philip Neri, who would later, after moving to Rome, be known as the Second Apostle of Rome and for whose religious community, the Oratory, Animuccia would write a set of Laude for early morning services. In 1550 Animuccia left Florence for Rome and entered the service of Cardinal Guido Ascanio Sforza. He met many former Florentines (the Florentines even had their own church, the San Giovanni dei Fiorentini) and enter the circle of Antonio Altoviti, whom Pope Paul III made the Archbishop of Florence. Duke Cosimo didn’t like Altoviti and banned him from entering the city, thus the archbishop spent the following 20 years in Rome. We mention this because Altovivi’s circle included the young Orlando di Lasso, so the two composers knew each other. Animuccia’s musical life was also tied to another great composer, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. In 1551 Pole […]
2016-01-23 03:30:00
Opera Favourites #3 - Il Cigno di Busseto
[…] de Bortoli, Anna Caterina Antonacci Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna Riccardo Chailly Decca 425 864-2 (1989) - Courtesy of Cecco Giuseppe Verdi Rigoletto Piero Cappuccilli, Plácido Domingo, Ileana Cotrubas, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Elena Obraztsova, Hanna Schwarz, Kurt Moll, Dirk Sagemüller, Olive Fredricks Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker Carlo Maria GiuliniDGG 415 288-2 (1980) - Courtesy of Cecco Giuseppe Verdi Rigoletto Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Carlo Bergonzi, Renata Scotto, Ivo Vinco, Fiorenza Cossotto, Mirella Fiorentini, Lorenzo Testi, Alfredo Giacomotti, Catarina Alda Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala Rafael KubelikDGG 437 704-2 (1964) Giuseppe Verdi Rigoletto Cornell MacNeil, Renato Cioni, Joan Sutherland, Cesare Siepi, Stefania Malagù, Anna di Stasio, Fernando Corena, Giulio Corti, Luisa Valle Coro e Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Nino SanzognoDecca 443 853-2 (1962) - Courtesy of Cecco Giuseppe Verdi Rigoletto Renato Bruson, Neil Shicoff, Edita Gruberova, Robert Lloyd, Brigitte Fassbaender, Jean Rigby, […]
2015-12-17 16:00:17
[…] of his influence, Cimarosa obtained a scholarship at the musical institute of Santa Maria di Loreto in Naples, where he remained for eleven years, chiefly studying with great masters of the old Italian school; Niccolò Piccinni, Antonio Sacchini, and other musicians of repute are mentioned among his teachers. At the age of twenty-three, Cimarosa began his career as a composer with an opera buffa called Le stravaganze del conte, first performed at the Teatro del Fiorentini at Naples in 1772. The work met with approval, and was followed in the same year by Le pazzie di Stelladaura e di Zoroastro, a farce full of humour and eccentricity. This work was also successful, and the fame of the young composer began to spread all over Italy. In 1774, he was invited to Rome to write an opera for the stagione of that year; and there he produced another comic opera called […]
2013-01-30 22:47:28
Veni, vidi, Vinci!
[…] opera recording of 2012 ! The precise date of Vinci’s birth is unknown, but the best evidence suggests he was born around 1696 in Calabria and entered the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo in Naples at the age of 12. There the prodigious Vinci had his first run-ins with Nicola Porpora (ten years his senior), a rivalry that dogged him for the rest of his life. Vinci’s first successes were at the Teatro de’Fiorentini, Naples’s newest opera house and one principally devoted to the burgeoning genre of commedia per musica. Part of Neapolitan opera since the late seventeenth century, comic scenes had been generally limited to intermezzi; gradually, however, full-length comedies evolved, many wholly or partly sung in the local dialect. Vinci’s comic operas became immensely popular, and until recently, his recorded legacy consisted almost solely of these works thanks to the advocacy of conductor Antonio Florio […]