SCARLATTI La Dirindina CIMAROSA Il Maestro di Cappella SARO L'Impresario Canarie

Description: Three rare Italian comic intermezzos on DVD. Recorded in Italy with English subtitles. La DirindinabyDomenico Scarlatti Il Maestro di cappellabyDomenico Cimarosa L'Impresario delle CanariebyDomenico Sarro Adriana Cicogna (Mezzo Soprano)Giorgio Gatti (Baritone)Patrizia Cigna (Soprano)Ernesto Palacio (Tenor)Riccardo Cirri, conductorOrchestra Ars Cantus La Dirindina is a comic intermezzo composed as incidental entertainment to be performed during the interval of Scarlatti’s opera Ambleto. Shortly before it’s premiere for the 1715 Carnival at the Teatro Capranica in Rome it was withdrawn after being banned by the Vatican censor. The issue seems to have been the rather scandalous libretto by esteemed but irreverent and satirical Tuscan playwright Girolamo Gigli. Il maestro di cappella is an operatic intermezzo in one act by Domenico Cimarosa. The first known performance of the work was on 2 July 1793 in Berlin, Germany. However, it is unlikely that this was the premier production, and music historians believe the opera debuted some time between 1786 and 1792. The author of the opera's libretto is now unknown. An amusing monodrama for a bass-baritone, the opera portrays a pompous maestro rehearsing an orchestra, often imitating the sound of the instruments. Always popular with great buffos (such as Fernando Corena and Sesto Bruscantini), it continues to be regularly performed. A typical performance runs slightly under 20 minutes. L'impresario delle Isole Canarie is a satirical opera intermezzo libretto attributed to Metastasio (Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi), written in 1724 to be performed between the acts of Metastasio's opera seria Didone abbandonata. The first performance of the work was on February 1, 1724 in Naples, Italy, at Teatro San Bartolomeo. The first composer to set this libretto to music was Domenico Sarro, also known by the name Sarri, who also revised the work in 1730.

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