Composer: Domenico Cimarosa
Performer: Giulia Semenzato, Jesús Álvarez, Donato di Stefano, Loriana Castellano, Klara Ek, Renato Girolami, Academia Montis Regalis
Orchestra: Orchester der Academia Montis Regalis
Conductor: Alessandro De Marchi
Number of Discs: 3
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 555295-2
Release: 2021
Size: 1 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
Il matrimonio segreto (Live)
Act I
01. Sinfonia
02. Cara, non dubitar
03. Lusinga, no, nonc’è la nostra unione
04. Qual’ error
05. Eccho che qui se n’vien
06. Orsu, piu non si tardi
07. Udite, tutti udite
08. Signora sorellina
09. Le faccio un inchino
10. Chetatevi e scusatela
11. E vero che in casa
12. Che arrivi il conte
13. Signore, ecco qua il conte
14. Senza, senza cerimonie
15. Orsu senza far punto cerimonie
16. Permettetemi dunque
17. Sento in petto un freddo gelo
18. Piu a lungo la scoperta
19. Si, coraggio mi faccio
20. Signor, deh, concedete
CD 02
Il matrimonio segreto (Live)
Act I
01. Paolino ritarda con la risposta
02. Perdonate, signor mio
03. Io resto ancora attonito
04. Tu m dici che del conte
Act II
05. Questa invero è curiosa
06. Se fiato in corpo avete
07. Per fare ch’Elisetta mi ricusi
08. Ecco che or ora scoppia
09. Ohimè, che mi vien male
10. Vanne, vanne, la séguita
11. Pria che spunti in ciel l’aurora
CD 03
Il matrimonio segreto (Live)
Act I
01. Fuggir?
02. Qua nulla si conclude
03. Son lunatico bilosa
04. Potea parlar quell’anima incivile
05. Ebben? Sei persuasa
06. Casa farete
07. In un retiro?
08. Son risoluta io stessa di vincere
09. E possono mai nascere
10. Come tacerlo poi
11. Dove, dove mia cara
12. Colti vi abbiam
13. Deh, lasciate ch’io respiri
14. Sarete or persuasa
15. Se son vendicata
16. Vendito qua, Paolino
17. Il parlar di Carolina
18. Deh, ti conforta, o cara
Il matrimonio segreto is the only opera that has ever had the honor of being repeated in full at its premiere, so very much did the comical musical goings-on please its distinguished audience. On the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the Innsbruck Early Music Festival Weeks, the conductor Alessandro De Marchi again at long last led a performance of Cimarosa’s most popular opera in historical performance practice and in original sound. The music forms a direct transition from the Baroque opera to the Bel Canto era of Rossini and in every way merits a production in which the musical and vocal practice of Cimarosa and Mozart’s times is brought back to life. Nowadays Cimarosa’s opera is always heard in greatly abbreviated versions; repetitions and parts of arias often end up being eliminated. Alessandro De Marchi: ‘Though precisely these repetitions are interesting because in them the female and male singers, just as then was still the practice, are able to vary and improvise.’ The orchestral sound is also more colorfully and sharply contoured when original instruments are used. For the anniversary occasion everybody was supposed to have good reason to laugh, and this opera is optimally suited toward this end. The tradition of the opera buffa, with its origins going back to the commedia dell’arte, in this work experiences a ‘high point full of irresistible moments of fun, on the stage and in the music’ as De Marchi puts it.