Giuseppe Gazzaniga News
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2023-12-08 08:53:00
An Englishman, Frenchman, Spaniard, Italian and a German find themselves on a desert island: Bampton Classical Opera explores Alcina's Island
[…] ballet though alas modern performances of the opera have not attempted to include this. It was staged in 2015 by BREMF [see my review]. Caccini's opera treats the subject quite lightly, and it is clear that Ariosto's characters were regarded as entertainment, with a moral perhaps, but definitely something to be enjoyed and not worried over. In 1772 another Alcina-inspired opera, L’isola d’Alcina, was premiered at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice, this was by ;Giuseppe Gazzaniga (1743-1718). Gazzaniga is now perhaps best known for his 1787 opera, Don Giovanni, whose text inspired Mozart and Da Ponte's opera. Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni was definitely comic, and his treatment of Alcina is similar.In Gazzaniga's opera an Englishman, Frenchman, Spaniard, Italian and German get washed up on Alcina’s magical island where the seductive and beautiful sorceress (although 800 years old) has a habit of discarding her lovers and turning them into rocks or animals. […]
2023-11-25 12:30:49
Britten theatre, Royal College of Music; Susie Sainsbury theatre, Royal Academy of Music, LondonElegant Handel and a fizzing production of Gazzaniga’s rarely seen take on Don Giovanni provided two fine showcases for the next generation of opera talentSpitting at one another like cats – “Meatball!” “Sardine!” – two duetting sopranos nearly stole the show at the Royal College of Music’s Britten theatre last week in a work that was more than two centuries old but new to most of us. Giuseppe Gazzaniga (1743-1818), an Italian composer associated with Naples, wrote 51 operas. Best known, for obvious reasons, is
2019-10-23 23:00:00
Les Castrats au temps de Mozart
Castrato arias by JC Bach, Cherubini, Gazzaniga, Guadagni, Aprile, Rauzzini & Mozart (See back cover for tracks)Aris Christofellis, CountertenorFlavio Colusso, Ensemble Seicentonovocento(Period Instruments)EMI CDC 5 56134 2 (1996)[Flac & Scans]
2019-10-19 23:00:00
Amadeus and Vienna (Rousset - Les Talens Lyriques)
Amadeus and Vienna Famous arias by Mozart placed along side forgotten operatic arias and overtures by Joseph Haydn, Vincente Martin y Soler, Domenico Cimarosa, Antonio Salieri, Giuseppe Gazzaniga and Giuseppe Sarti. This disc contains the only PI recording of Sarti's "Come un agnello." See rear cover for complete track listing.Roberto Scaltriti-BaritoneChristophe Rousset, Les Talens Lyriques(Period Instruments)Decca L'Oiseau Lyre 458557-2 (1998)[Flac & Scans]
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