Éste será mi último post, al menos por un tiempo. Los ataques a Mediafire y Rapidshare hacen imposible mantener los links activos, y los Comentarios que recibia en los posts sólo hacían referencia a que este link no funciona o este link está caido, y ése parecía ser el único interés de la gente que entraba en el blog: cómo descargar gratis las óperas, cuando en realidad el objetivo era promover el interés en ellas y su compra.
Pero la despedida provisional es a lo grande, con la última ópera de Vivaldi: L'Oracolo in Messenia
Virgin Classics present the world-premiere recording of L’Oracolo in
Messenia, an opera prepared by Vivaldi for Vienna in 1740 after its
premiere in 1738 in Venice. Fabio Biondi leads this triumphant
performance, which opened the 2011 Resonanzen festival in the Austrian
capital with a high-powered cast including Ann Hallenberg, Vivica Genaux
and rising soprano Julia Lezhneva.
Vivaldi expert Fabio Biondi has reconstructed the work from literary and
musical sources – notably a libretto recently discovered at the Library
of Congress in Washington, DC. This musicological feat follows the
example Biondi set with two other Vivaldi operas recorded for Virgin
Classics, Bajazet and Ercole sul Termodonte.
Vivaldi hoped for performances of the work in Vienna during Carnival in
1741, but in October 1740 the Austrian Emperor, Charles VI, died
suddenly and Austria’s theatres were closed for a year of mourning; so
Vivaldi’s plans came to nothing and he himself died in Vienna in 1741,
alone and poor. L’Oracolo in Messenia was finally staged in the city in
1742 at the city’s Kärntnertor Theatre, starring Anna Girò, Vivaldi’s
favourite prima donna, as Queen Merope.
Appropriately enough, this recording was made in Vienna. It captures the
opening performance of the 20th season of the prestigious Resonanzen
festival of early music, which takes place at the city’s Konzerthaus.
The impressive cast comprises soprano Julia Lezhneva, mezzo sopranos Ann
Hallenberg (as Queen Merope), Vivica Genaux, Romina Basso and Franziska
Gottwald, counter tenor Xavier Sabata and tenor Magnus Staveland. Fabio
Biondi leads his own ensemble, Europa Galante, from the violin. The
performance was greeted with a standing ovation and the media were
lavish in their praise; indeed the Wiener Zeitung said that: “the
festival could not have launched its 20th anniversary in more triumphant
fashion”.
Julia Lezhneva (Trasimede)
Ann Hallenberg (Merope)
Vivica Genaux (Epitide)
Romina Basso (Elmira)
Franziska Gottwald (Licisco)
Xavier Sabata (Anassandro)
Magnus Staveland (Polifonte)
Europa Galante
dir. Fabio Biondi
