Paer - Leonora
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Label: CPO
Cat No: 5554112
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 30th July 2021
Contents
Artists
Elonora Bellocci (soprano)Paolo Fantale (tenor)
Renato Girolami (bass)
Marie Lys (soprano)
Luigi De Donato (bass)
Carlo Allemano (tenor)
Kresimir Spicer (tenor)
Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester
Conductor
Alessandro de MarchiWorks
LeonoraArtists
Elonora Bellocci (soprano)Paolo Fantale (tenor)
Renato Girolami (bass)
Marie Lys (soprano)
Luigi De Donato (bass)
Carlo Allemano (tenor)
Kresimir Spicer (tenor)
Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester
Conductor
Alessandro de MarchiAbout
The enterprising and successful composer Paër comes from the tradition of the Italian opera and finds his place at the beginning of the bel canto opera. Spirited recitatives, extended arias, cabalettas, and marvelously mellow duets occur in sequence in his works, including his opera Leonora, premiered in 1804. During the Napoleonic Wars what he presented here was a heroic liberation opera of French stamp. The action corresponds to the spirit of the times, and the faithful wife displays heroism in her rescue of her unjustly imprisoned husband from a self-complacent tyrant’s dungeon. Dark political intrigues are denounced, and honesty, uprightness, and pure love are glorified.
Paër’s musical setting of Fidelio’s heroic story differs from Beethoven’s only opera in many respects. First and foremost because the libretto is in Italian, a language that has very different effects on the melodic, rhythmic, and rhetorical flow of the music and its expressive character. Then there is also the fact that Paër composed considerably more coloraturas for the principal singers than Beethoven did. Here an Italian opera composer of the high Neapolitan school clearly continuing to point back to Hasse and Porpora makes his voice heard.
Cast:
- Leonora / Fedele: Elonora Bellocci (soprano)
- Florestano: Paolo Fantale (tenor)
- Rocco: Renato Girolami (bass)
- Marcellina: Marie Lys (soprano)
- Giacchino: Luigi De Donato (bass)
- Don Pizarro: Carlo Allemano (tenor)
- Don Fernando: Krešimir Špicer (tenor)
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