| Product Code: 33631 | | Category: Opera | | Composer: Cimarosa Domenico | | Title: IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO | | Price: 31.20 € | Performer: Conductor: Giovanni Antonini
Director: Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera
Costumi: Fernand Ruiz
Carolina - Cinzia Forte
Elisetta - Priscilla Laplace
Fidalma - Damiana Pinti I
Il signor Geronimo - Alberto Rinaldi
Paolino - Aldo Caputo
Il Conte Robinson - Mario Cassi
Orchestra Opéra Royal de Wallonie
Opéra Royale de Wallonie, 2008 | | Media: 1 DVD | PROGRAM INFORMATIONS:
For the public of music lovers talking about Domenico Cimarosa means, essentially, talking about just one of his operas, the Matrimonio segreto which, first staged in Vienna on 7th February 1792, was also one of the greatest successes in the history of eighteenth-century opera.
At the time of the Matrimonio segreto Cimarosa had already some fifty operas to his credit. With Giovanni Paisiello he was the most prestigious and authoritative representative of Neapolitan opera.
Il matrimonio segreto, is universally recognised as Cimarosa’s masterpiece and the only one of his operas to have survived in the regular repertoire to this day.
The reasons for its success are quite simple: the opera is practically perfect, splendidly balanced, accompanied from start to finish by an unfailing vein of felicitous melodic invention, orchestrated with unwonted attention, rich in irresistible arias and ensembles, always amusing but never farcical, and moreover based on a libretto of good quality: ”a sweet fable, not even lightly touched by the suspicion of its improbability”, as Francesco Delgado has justly defined it.
The opera contains memorable passages, once heard never forgotten, like the beautiful overture wholly worthy of Mozart, Paolino’s aria Pria che spunti in ciel l’aurora, and the formidable duet between the Count and Geronimo in the second act Se fiato in corpo avete, that was soon to become a landmark in Italian comic opera, destined to survive to Rossini and beyond.
In the nineteenth century, moreover, Il matrimonio segreto was to find illustrious admirers including Stendhal.
BIO:
Giovanni Antonini (Conductor)
Recorder player and conductor, Giovanni Antonini is one of the leaders of the Italian period instruments movements. He studied flute and recorder in his native Milan, attending the Civica Scuola di Musica in that city and the Centre de Musique Ancienne in Geneva. He became a leading recorder soloist.
In 1985, he became a founding member of ”Il Giardino Armonico” (The Harmonic Garden), an original instruments group founded in Milan by a select group of international-caliber period instrument players. In 1989, Antonini became one of the directors of the organization and began to conduct the ensemble.
He is also a regular conductor of the Settimane Bach of Milan and has appeared as guest conductor with the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, the Salzburg Camerata Academica, the Los Angeles Philarmonic and the Berliner Philarmoniker.
STRONG POINTS:
-Giovanni Antonini (Conductor) is a world famous musician. He is the director of Giardino Armonico.
-Italian cast. It’s important because they really get the joke and can transmite to the audience the right expressiveness and understanding enhancing the playful character of this opera.
-Apart two 1986 recordings (in 4:3), this DVD (16:9) will represent the sole recording of this opera currently available. | Track List:
1- Sinfonia
ACT ONE
2 - Cara, non dubitar
3 - Io ti lascio, perché uniti
4 - Udite, tutti udite
5 - Elisetta mia cara, vi trovo ben turbata!
6 - È vero che in casa
7 - Senza, senza cerimonie
8 - Sento in petto un freddo gelo
9 - Signor, deh, concedete...
10 - Perdonate, signor mio
11 - Finale I
ACT TWO
1 - Questa invero è curiosa!
2 - Sento, oimè! che mi vien male
3 - Pria che spunti in ciel l’aurora
4 - Son lunatico, bilioso
5 - Cosa farete?
6 - Come tacerlo poi
7 - Deh! lasciate ch’io respiri
8 - Se son vendicata
9 - Il parlar di Carolina
10 - Finale II | |
IL MATRIMONIO SEGRETO
