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Recensie

Het Rossini Festival in Bad Wildbad brengt jaarlijks ook een tijdgenoot van Rossini onder de aandacht. Stefano Pavesi (1779-1850) schreef maar liefst 68 opera’s en was ook buiten Italië bekend, maar uitgerekend de successen van Rossini maakten daaraan een einde en inmiddels is Pavesi vrijwel vergeten. De opera buffa Ser Mercantonio doet echter niet onder voor de eerste opera’s van Rossini. Deze opera verschijnt nu voor het eerst op cd, met uitstekende solisten en een gedreven orkest. Liefhebbers van bel canto hoeven niet te aarzelen.


Pavesi: Ser Marcantonio

World Première Recording

Marco Filippo Romano (baritone), Loriana Castellano (contralto), Matteo D’Apolito (bass-baritone), Timur Bekbosunov (tenor), Silvia Beltrami (mezzo-soprano), Svetlana Smolentseva (mezzo-soprano) & Massimiliano Silvestri (tenor)

Camerata Bach Choir, Poznań & Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Massimo Spadano

Stefano Pavesi’s work was swept away by the Rossini operatic avalanche and he is now almost forgotten, but while his vibrantly entertaining (though not without a touch of melancholy) melodramma giocoso Ser Marcantonio has many Rossinian features the young Gioachino’s operatic career was yet to begin when it was first staged. The libretto sets up a typical late eighteenth-century opera buffa plot full of intrigue, buffoonery, disguises and cases of mistaken identity, which may be summarised as “about preventing an old fool from making an ill-advised marriage and stopping his heir from gaining his rightful inheritance”.

Stefano Pavesi’s Ser Marcantonio may be the only of his many operas to have survived beyond the subsequent mania for Rossini, but it has taken this vibrant 2011 production from the Rossini in Wildbad festival to see it appear on CD. Highly enjoyable in its own right, this comic opera also has historic significance to recommend it, serving as it does as a model for both Rossini and Donizetti in his Don Pasquale both musically and in the links formed by librettist Angelo Anelli. Of the young and vibrant festival cast, Marco Filippo Romano (Mercantonio) has been described as singing “with glorious clarity and… perfect comic timing.” (Inquirer.net)

Tracks

Disc 1
1. Sinfonia
2. Amici Miei Carissimi (1. Akt)
3. Che Credono Costor?
4. Quando, O Dorina Amabile
5. Ma Dorina - Medoro
6. Che Intesi! - Ah! Traditore
7. Mi Vien Da Ridere
8. Presto Presto, Cecchina
9. Parlo Schietto
10. Che Tobia Ci Tradisca
11. Come - Ti Spiega
12. Ah, Ah! Vecchio Qual Son
13. Signorina, Signorina
14. Venite, Oh Mia Carina
15. Oh! Che Innocenza!
16. Ma Possibile È Dunque
17. Crudeli - Infin L'amante
18. Crede La Sciocca Ancor
19. Tu M'attacca Le Basette
Disc 2
1. Son Pronti I Falegnami (2. Akt)
2. Cheti Cheti Là Dentro
3. Per Piacere Al Mio Sposino
4. Insomma, Che Cos'hai Caro Marito?
5. Son Pronti I Falegnami
6. Andate Via Di Qua
7. Brutto E Vecchio, Alla Tua Sposa Dêi Piacer
8. Ebben? Questa Commedia
9. Vicino Quest'alma
10. Amico, Ecco Il Momento
11. Or Capisco Che Siete Un Vile
12. Povero Marcantonio!
13. Or Che Frai I Taciti Notturni Orrori
14. Impaziente Aspetto Qualche Notizia
15. Un Che In Età Decrepita
16. Voi Di Qua, Voi Di Là
17. La Calunnia È Un Gran Delitto
18. Che Dite, Signor Zio?
19. Adunque Siamo Intesi

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