Pergolesi’s Opera (s)

[doversoul1]

CD Review: 4 May
10.30am
Andrew talks to Simon Heighes about recent releases of operas by Pergolesi, Gluck and Cherubini

I have to admit that I don’t often think beyond that Stabat Mater and a few odd instrumental works when it comes to Pegolesi. So I had a quick look at Presto Classics and found not one but THREE operas by Pergolegi are being released, all with great names.

Lo frate ‘nnamorato
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi

L'Olimpiade
Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi

Flaminio
Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone

PLUS, whilst not an opera, it has superb performers:

Septem verba a Christo in cruce moriente prolata
World-premiere recording
Sophie Karthäuser (soprano), Christophe Dumaux (countertenor), Julien Behr
(tenor), Konstantin Wolff (bass)
Akademie für Alte Musik, René Jacobs

Any Pergolegi experts out there?

[ardcarp]

No expert alas, but La Serva Padrona whilst only an entr'act, is a brilliantly witty piece which is partly proto-feminist and partly 'the servant classes getting the upper hand' rather as in Figaro. We staged it as students back in the sixties...in English translation.

[doversoul1]

No expert alas, but La Serva Padrona whilst only an entr'act, is a brilliantly witty piece which is partly proto-feminist and partly 'the servant classes getting the upper hand' rather as in Figaro. We staged it as students back in the sixties...in English translation.

As for La Serva Padrona, I found this yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsUeywPFEgQ

I Barocchisti：Conducted by Diego Fasolis

[ed] the libretto (in Italian but Google translation makes just about enough sense)

http://www.librettidopera.it/zpdf/servapad.pdf

the synopsis from wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_serva_padrona

[MickyD]

It's surprising just how lucky La Serva Padrona has been on disc. I think this one from Kuijken is supposed to be good...coupled with another work. But I can't say I've heard it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pergolesi-Livietta-Tracollo-Padrona-Mechelen/dp/B000025164/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1367559148&sr=1-1&keywords=pergolesi+kuijken

[doversoul1]

This should be on the CD Review Board but as I have started this thread, I’ll stay put.

I very much enjoyed Simon Heighes’s opera slot. If anybody is interested or curious, here are the video clips. No Amy Winehouse (Cherubini’s Medee) lookalike available yet. I’m not entirely sure if I actually want to see some of these productions. I may prefer just to listen if I could get hold of the librettos (libretti?).

Pergolegi
L'Olimpiade
Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Arthaus%2BMusik/101650#video

Flaminio
Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Arthaus%2BMusik/108067#video

GLUCK: Iphigenie en Aulide*;Iphigenie en Tauride

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Opus%2BArte/OA1099D#video

This was not reviewed but just as well (another Pergolegi)
Lo frate ‘nnamorato
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Arthaus%2BMusik/108066#video

and here is Rene Jacobs talking about another Pergolegi’s new release Septem verba a Christo in cruce moriente prolata. Apparently, this stared as someone’s PhD thesis.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/advsearch.php?composer=&work=Septem+verba+a+Christo+in+cruce+moriente+prolata&performer=&medium=all&label=&cat=