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Special offer. Mozart: Lucio Silla

Franco Fagioli (Cecilio), Olga Pudova (Giunia), Alessandro Liberatore (Lucio Silla), Chiara Skerath (Lucio Cinna), Ilse Eerens (Celia), Le Jeune Chœur de Paris, Insula orchestra, Laurence Equilbey

Mozart: Lucio Silla
There are certainly strengths in Equilbey’s team – especially in Chiara Skerath’s lucid Cinna and Alessandro Liberatore’s trenchant Silla. The other members of the cast are less consistent,...

BBC Music Magazine, July 20223 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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Special offer. Mozart: Lucio Silla

Franco Fagioli (Cecilio), Olga Pudova (Giunia), Alessandro Liberatore (Lucio Silla), Chiara Skerath (Lucio Cinna), Ilse Eerens (Celia), Le Jeune Chœur de Paris, Insula orchestra, Laurence Equilbey

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There are certainly strengths in Equilbey’s team – especially in Chiara Skerath’s lucid Cinna and Alessandro Liberatore’s trenchant Silla. The other members of the cast are less consistent,...

BBC Music Magazine, July 20223 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

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“She managed to unfold a wide array of colours from the historic instruments of the excellent Insula Orchestra and she demonstrates a true passion for music. The evening ends in a thundering applause. This ‘Lucio Silla’ could flourish in Vienna.”– Salzburger Nachrichten

Following Equilbey’s Magic Mozart album is this youthful work from Mozart that shakes up the codes of the opera seria and prefigures Romanticism

An inimitable blend of depth and lightness, intensity and grace

Cast featuring countertenor Franco Fagioli, worthy heir to the castrati, as well as Olga Pudova, Chiara Skerath, Ilse Eerens, and Alessandro Liberatore

Laurence Equilbey conducts Le Jeune Choeur de Paris and Insula Orchestra

  • Release date: 8th Apr 2022
  • Label: Erato
  • Catalogue number: 9029637734
  • Length: 2 hours 6 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Mozart: Lucio Silla, K. 135, Overture, Pt. 1: Molto allegro
Work length3:28
Mozart: Lucio Silla, K. 135, Overture, Pt. 2: Andante
Work length2:31
Mozart: Lucio Silla, K. 135, Overture, Pt. 3: Molto allegro
Work length1:26
Mozart: Lucio Silla, K. 135, Act 1
Work length56:42
"Oh ciel, l'amico Cinna" (Cecilio, Cinna)
Track length0:40
"Vieni ov’amor t’invita" (Cinna)
Track length8:09
"Dunque sperar poss’io" (Cecilio)
Track length2:28
"Il tenero momento" (Cecilio)
Track length8:13
"Se lusinghiera speme" (Celia)
Track length5:12
"Del genitor estinto" (Giunia)
Track length0:24
"Dalla sponda tenebrosa" (Giunia)
Track length6:14
"Un dittatore così s’insulta" (Silla)
Track length1:23
"Il desio di vendetta, e di morte" (Silla)
Track length5:06
"Morte, morte fatal" (Cecilio)
Track length5:05
"Fuor di queste urne dolenti" - "O del padre ombra diletta" (Chorus, Giunia)
Track length5:41
"Se l’empio Silla, o padre" (Giunia, Cecilio)
Track length1:56
"D’Eliso in sen m’attendi" (Giunia, Cecilio)
Track length6:11
Mozart: Lucio Silla, K. 135, Act 2
Work length3:58
"Il braccio mio non ritener" (Cecilio, Cinna)
Track length0:40
"Cecilio, a che t’arresti presso la tomba mia?" (Cecilio)
Track length3:18
Mozart: Lucio Silla, K. 135, At 2
Work length2:54
"Quest’improvviso tremito" (Cecilio)
Track length2:27
"Al letto segui l’empio" (Cinna, Giunia)
Track length0:27
Mozart: Lucio Silla, K. 135, Act 2
Work length9:15
"Vanne. T’affretta" (Giunia)
Track length1:12
"Ah se il crudel periglio" (Giunia)
Track length8:03
Mozart: Lucio Silla, K. 135, At 2
Work length5:34
"Ah sì, scuotasi omai" (Cinna)
Track length0:36
"Nel fortunato istante" (Cinna)
Track length4:43
"E puoi?" (Silla, Giunia)
Track length0:15
Mozart: Lucio Silla, K. 135, Act 2
Work length15:44
"D’ogni pietà mi spoglio perfida" (Silla)
Track length2:01
"Il mio germano" (Celia)
Track length0:28
"Quando sugl’arsi campi" (Celia)
Track length4:19
"In un istante oh come s’accrebbe il mio timor!" (Giunia)
Track length2:48
"Se gloria il crin ti cinse" (Chorus)
Track length2:16
"Nella prigion più nera traggasi il reo" (Silla)
Track length0:24
"Quell'orgoglioso sdegno" (Silla, Cecilio, Giunia)
Track length3:28
Mozart: Lucio Silla, K. 135, Act 3
Work length24:48
"Strider sento la procella"(Celia)
Track length3:52
"Se il cor di Silla contro al dovere" (Cinna)
Track length0:21
"De’ più superbi il core" (Cinna)
Track length4:29
"Ah caro sposo... " (Giunia, Cecilio)
Track length0:47
"Pupille amate" (Cecilio)
Track length4:36
"Sposo... mia vita... " (Giunia)
Track length2:42
"Fra i pensier più funesti di morte" (Giunia)
Track length3:14
"Or l’atto illustre alfine decider dee" (Silla)
Track length1:32
"Il gran Silla" (Chorus, Tutti)
Track length3:15

Spotlight on this release

  • Laurence Equilbey on Lucio Silla

    17th May 2022by Katherine Cooper

    The French conductor discusses her new recording of Mozart's early opera on Erato, starring Alessandro Liberatore as the eponymous dictator and Franco Fagioli in the castrato role of Cecilio.

    Classical Interview

Awards and reviews

July 2022

There are certainly strengths in Equilbey’s team – especially in Chiara Skerath’s lucid Cinna and Alessandro Liberatore’s trenchant Silla. The other members of the cast are less consistent, with coloratura passages not always cleanly negotiated and tone sometimes unsteady. The chorus, though, is impressive, the orchestra spry and the conductor brings dynamism to her task.
3 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording)

August 2022

Fagioli makes an outstanding Cecilius: no hint of strain, beautiful tone, delicate phrasing in the strings-only ‘Pupille amate’.
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