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Luca Casagrande Baritone & Loretta Liberato Mezzosoprano – “Tengo per infallibile” – Cantata à due voci e Basso Continuo – Agostino Steffani (1654 – 1728). Scarlatti Camera Ensemble Artistic Director & Producer Luca Casagrande

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Donizetti, agli inizi della sua attività compositiva, trae ampi spuntidall’uso che delle voci fa Rossini e, in generale, dalla tipologia vocale pre-romantica: utilizzo del contralto “en travesti” nei panni dell’amoroso e del tenore baritonale come antagonista e rivale. L’uso insistito di vocalizzi, fiorettature e ornamenti è poi indice dell’importanza ancora persistente, ai primi dell’Ottocento, del […]

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Monserrat Caballé – “Havvi un Dio che in sua clemenza” – Aria of Maria – “Maria di Rohan” (1843) – G. Donizetti. “Maria di Rohan”, one of Donizetti’s last operas, is also one of his leanest. It was composed for Vienna in 1843 for an audience that preferred its story-telling to be direct and relatively […]

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“Canzoni d’amore” (“Love songs”) – Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848) – LIVE in concert – Berlin 1998. Luca Casagrande Baritone Jessica Nardon Piano (Piano Erard XIX cent.) Donizetti was a prolific composer. He composed about 75 operas, 16 symphonies, 19 string quartets, almost 300 songs, 45 duets, 3 oratorios, 28 cantatas, instrumental concertos, sonatas, and […]

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Dame Joan Sutherland – “Care Selve” – “Atalanta” – (HWV 35) – G. F. Handel – First performance: 12th May 1736, Covent Garden Theatre, London. Live 1961. Joan Sutherland at her best. The Spring opera season of 1736 was to be Handel’s shortest. It started on 19th February with the premiere of his new oratorio […]

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Rufus Müller – Tenor – “Dell’Iberia al soglio invitto” – “Rodrigo” – G. F. Händel.

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Sandrine Piau & Il Complesso Barroco conducted by M.° Alan Curtis “Per dar pregio all’amor mio” – Aria di Esilena – “Rodrigo” – G. F. Händel. RODRIGO, or Vincer se stesso è la maggior vittoria (to overcome oneself is the greater victory) (HWV 5) – Libretto: Francesco Silvani. First peformance: November 1707 (date unknown), Teatro […]

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Nuria Rial – The complete “Neun deutsche Arien” – G. F. Händel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl6NyAKPR_s

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From 1710 onwards she was one of the great European personalities of the stage – a fantastic singer and a brilliant actress. And all this in spite of her looks – she was called “The Elephant” by a certain librettists. The only artist to have focused on arias by Margherita was the late Lorraine Hunt […]

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Giovanni Carestini (c. 1704 in Filottrano, near Ancona – c. 1760) was an Italian castrato of the 18th century, who sang in the operas and oratorios of George Frideric Händel. He is also remembered as having sung for Johann Adolph Hasse and Christoph Willibald Gluck. Carestini’s career began in Milan in 1719, patronised at the […]