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Leonardo García Alarcón: Sacrati – La Finta Pazza (24/96 FLAC)

Leonardo García Alarcón: Sacrati - La Finta Pazza (24/96 FLAC)
Leonardo García Alarcón: Sacrati – La Finta Pazza (24/96 FLAC)

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Composer: Francesco Sacrati
Performer: Cappella Mediterranea
Conductor: Leonardo García Alarcón
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles
Catalogue: CVS070
Release: 2022
Size: 2.75 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes

01. Sinfonia
02. Prologo – «Loquace Diva»

Atto I
03. Scena 1 – «Il porto è qui di Sciro»
04. Scena 2 – «Or che son giunti al destinato affare»
05. Scena 3 – «Ombra di timore»
06. Scena 4 – «Mi vedete già tutto»
07. Scena 5 – «O formano gli Dei»

Atto II
08. Scena 1 – «L’amante modesto»
09. Scena 2 – «Dolce cambio di natura»
10. Scena 3 – «Ferma, o fatal guerriero!»
11. Scena 4 – «È giustissimo il duolo»
12. Scena 5 – «Cedi, cedi, e omai confessa»
13. Scena 6 – «Ardisci, animo, ardisci!»
14. Scena 7 – «Ove comandi, o Padre»
15. Scena 8 – «Spalancatevi abissi»
16. Scena 9 – «Oh Dio, che sento?»
17. Scena 10 – «Guerrieri, all’armi»

Atto III
18. Scena 1 – «Quand’ebbi d’oro il crin»
19. Scena 2 – «Non paventate»
20. Scena 3 – «Per ritardar l’imbarco»
21. Scena 4 – «Come riveda Achille»
22. Scena 5 – «Se ad un altro si sposa»
23. Scena Ultima – «La soverchia allegrezza»

14 December 1645: for the pleasure of the Queen Mother Anne of Austria, and attended by a young King Louis XIV, Cardinal Mazarin put on the first Italian opera in Paris. The Italian company, invited at great expense, performed Sacrati’s La finta pazza, composed in Venice in 1641. To capture the young 7-year-old monarch’s interest, a flurry of monkeys, bears and ostriches was added!


The opulent set decoration by Giacomo Torelli, boasting machinery the likes of which had never before been seen in France, cemented the triumph of this “Feigned Madwoman”, which also featured the first major scene of madness in history: Deidamia must feign madness to keep hold of her lover, the famous Achilles, himself disguised as a woman to escape his fate! Leonardo Garcia Alarcon leads a beautiful and colourful revival of this foundational masterpiece for opera in France, a true miracle of music.

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