Theresia Orchestra, Alessandro De Marchi – Domenico Cimarosa: Le Astuzie Femminili (2024)
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Domenico Cimarosa’s Le astuzie femminili was presented with success at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples on 26 August 1794. The libretto by Giuseppe Palomba is a rewriting of Giovanni Bertati’s Amor rende sagace. Bertati, who succeeded Lorenzo Da Ponte as imperial poet at the Habsburg court in 1790, had furnished this text to Cimarosa for a composition staged in Vienna during the previous year, in the wake of the triumphant success scored by the composer and the librettist with Il matrimonio segreto. As we read in the introductory note preceding the text of the libretto, the product now being offered to the Viennese public by the Cimarosa-Bertati duo was quite different from Il matrimonio segreto, given that it was situated in the genre of the one-act farce, in which the sentimental element almost entirely gives way to »popular buffoonery,« while »that which interests the heart« is relegated to brief effusions in the exchanges between the enamored couple. In effect, the plot of Amor rende sagace has a structure of elementary simplicity based on a stratagem set in motion by an astute and enterprising girl who pretends to be crazy to avoid an unwanted marriage, not to lose a substantial inheritance, and to secure her beloved as her spouse.
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David Hansen, Alessandro De Marchi, Academia Montis Regalis – Rivals – Arias for Farinelli & Co. (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:16:20 minutes | 1,37 GB | Genre: Classical
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Rivals’ – David Hansen’s debut recording for SONY / DHM explores and celebrates the music of Farinelli and his castrato rivals: Caffarelli, Carestini, Bernacchi and others. These singers dominated the stages of Europe and it was not always Farinelli who reigned supreme… David Hansen’s album features nine world premiere recordings. He is accompanied by Alessandro de Marchi and his orchestra Academia Montis Regalis. Recorded at the famous Academia at Mondovì in Piemont with Alessandro de Marchi and the musicians of the prestigious Academia Montis Regalis, the choice of arias demonstrates the remarkable breadth of David Hansen’s phenomenal technique, his musical versatility and expression.
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