Special offer. Paisiello: Fedra
Raffaella Milanesi (Fedra), Artavazd Sargsyan (Teseo), Anna Maria Dell’Oste (Aricia), Esther Andaloro (Diana), Sonia Fortunato (Tisifone), Salvatore D’Agata (Mercurio), Giuseppe Lo Turco (Plutone), Leonardo Catalanotto (harpsichord)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania,...
Jerome Correas makes a good case for the opera, with neat playing from the orchestra.
Special offer. Paisiello: Fedra
Raffaella Milanesi (Fedra), Artavazd Sargsyan (Teseo), Anna Maria Dell’Oste (Aricia), Esther Andaloro (Diana), Sonia Fortunato (Tisifone), Salvatore D’Agata (Mercurio), Giuseppe Lo Turco (Plutone), Leonardo Catalanotto (harpsichord)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania,...
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Jerome Correas makes a good case for the opera, with neat playing from the orchestra.
About
To mark the bicentenary of Paisiello’s death, Catania’s Bellini Theatre staged the first modern performance of his opera Fedra.
Based on the original manuscript of the work and on various transcriptions, this musical and artistic enterprise generated much interest among Italian and international critics: for its revival of a rich, complex score; and for the presence of French conductor Jérôme Correas, a leading authority in this repertoire.
Fedra received only one performance during the 20th century – for a radio recording – and has never been staged since. Although it is a valuable resource, that single radio recording is nonetheless incomplete and, unlike this edition, unfaithful in many ways to the original score.
Artists
Raffaella Milanesi (Fedra), Artavazd Sargsyan (Teseo), Anna Maria Dell’Oste (Aricia), Esther Andaloro (Diana), Sonia Fortunato (Tisifone), Salvatore D’Agata (Mercurio), Giuseppe Lo Turco (Plutone), Leonardo Catalanotto (harpsichord)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, Jérôme Correas
Contents and tracklist
- Caterina Poggini (soprano), Piera Bivona (soprano), Annamaria Dell'Oste (soprano), Raffaella Milanesi (soprano), Esther Andaloro (soprano), Artavazd Sargsyan (tenor), Sonia Fortunato (soprano), Salvatore D'Agata (tenor)
- Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, Coro del Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania
- Jérôme Correas
- Recorded: January 2016
- Recording Venue: Teatro Massimo Bellini di Catania, Italy
Awards and reviews
January 2017
Jerome Correas makes a good case for the opera, with neat playing from the orchestra.
2nd February
A valuable addition to the growing catalogue of recordings of more or less forgotten operas.
March 2017
the opera's many reversals of fortune give rise to some fine arias, and they are heard in performances rarely less than competent.
