Composer: Carl Heinrich Graun
Performer: Bejun Mehta, Valer Sabadus, Hagen Matzeit, Samuel Marino, Eleonora Bellocci, Roberta Invernizzi, Mert Sungu, Coro Maghini
Orchestra: Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester
Conductor: Alessandro de Marchi
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 555586-2
Release: 2023
Size: 4.05 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Silla, GraunWV B:I:27
CD 01
Act I
01. Scene 1: Sinfonia
02. Scene 1: No, genitrice
03. Scene 2: Bella Ottavia che intendo?
04. Scene 2: Ah si cimenta un core
05. Scene 3: Già s’aduna
06. Scene 3: Caro bell’Idol mio
07. Scene 4: Ah qual timor
08. Scene 4: Non v’è sì barbaro
09. Scene 5: E che paventi
10. Scene 5: Per più sublime oggetto
11. Scene 6: Dunque il suo cor
12. Scene 6: Sol nel caro amabil volto
13. Fanfare
14. Scene 7: Alfin colla mia destra
15. Scene 7: Trionfar veggasi
16. Scene 7: Padri Coscritti
17. Scene 7: Perfido, sì comprendo
18. Scene 8: Ah per domar, signore
19. Scene 8: Vinci, signor
20. Scene 9: Ora conosci i tuoi fedeli
21. Scene 9: Dirò, che tu l’adori
22. Scene 10: Povero core
CD 02
Act I
01. Scene 10: Vago adorato oggetto
Act II
02. Scene 1: Quanto tarda postumio
03. Scene 3: Quando potrem giammai
04. Scene 4: Silla di nuovo, o figlia
05. Scene 5: Invan mortale ardito
06. Scene 6: Lasciami, amico
07. Scene 6: Nò, nò di Libia fra l’arene
08. Scene 6: Non paventar
09. Scene 6: Dopo l’orror che desta
10. Scene 7: Ecco signor
11. Scene 8: Fra speme e timore
12. Scene 9: Queste, signor
13. Scene 9: Barbaro traditore
14. Scene 10: Signor, non t’irritar
15. Scene 10: Se l’augellin si vede
16. Scene 11: Ah signor, che facesti?
17. Scene 12: Rendimi il caro oggetto
CD 03
Act III
01. Scene 1: Si, morir mi conviene
02. Scene 2: Nel reo destin crudele
03. Scene 3: Ottavia, entriamo
04. Scene 3: Parmi… ah no!
05. Scene 4: Ah Metello ha ragion
06. Scene 5: Sia questo giorno altero
07. Scene 6: Ah signor
08. Scene 8: In questo amplesso un pegno
09. Final. Sinfonia
10. Final. Dopo i dovuti omaggi
11. Final. Roma per lui respira
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The 2022 Innsbruck Early Music Festival once again featured a major operatic excavation, now released on CPO: Silla by Carl Heinrich Graun. The libretto is based on a ‘piece dramatique’ written by none other than Frederick II, King of Prussia. It centers on the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Silla, who establishes a bloody regime of terror and finally, to everyone’s surprise, announces his abdication. Of course, Silla – as the laws of opera demand – seeks his conquests in love affairs as well. Two of the world’s best as well as most sought-after countertenors of our days: Bejun Mehta and Valer Sabadus were on stage. ‘The score is a great success, the second act with its stringent intensification easily one of the most exciting opera acts of the middle 18th century. The long rejoicing was above all for the singers, the musical performance of the Innsbruck Festival Orchestra under Alessandro De Marchi, and the joyful astonishment at a late Baroque opera that stands out fascinatingly from the bulk of creation around 1750,’ wrote the Neue Musikzeitung after the performance.