Rival Queens

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Rival Queens
Simone Kermes (soprano) & Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano) / Cappella Gabetta, Andres Gabetta

[ Sony Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 15 September 2014

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The Album explores the artistic legacies of the two legendary singers (Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni) and the heights of inspiration to which their rivalry moved the leading composers of their era.

A thrilling recording, in which Simone Kermes and Vivica Genaux sing arias and duets composed at the height of the rivalry between Eighteenth-Century singers Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni.

June 1727 was witness to the mother of all theater scandals. Francesca Cuzzoni (alias Simone Kermes) and Faustina Bordoni (alias Vivica Genaux), arch-rivals and both superstars of Italian opera, had a fight on stage at London's Haymarket Theatre.

Featuring music by Bononcini, Händel, Leo, Lotti, Pollarolo, Porpora, and Porta, most of which has not been heard since the careers of Bordoni and Cuzzoni, Rival Queens explores the artistic legacies of the two legendary singers and the heights of inspiration to which their much-fêted competition moved the important composers of the era.

Tracks:

Arena:
Come potesti, oh dio (from La clemenza di Tito)

Ariosti:
Lucio Vero Vorreste o mie pupille

Bononcini, G B:
Astianatte Svenalo, traditor
Spera che questo cor

Giacomelli:
Scipione in Cartagine nuova Villanella nube estiva

Hasse, J A:
Tu vuoi ch'io viva o cara (from Artaserse)
Issipile Impallidisce in campo
L'onda chiara che dal fonte (from Ifigenia in Tauride)
Va tra le selve Ircana (from Artaserse)
Se mai più sarò geloso (from Cleofide)

Leo:
Ciro riconosciuto Benché l'augel s'asconda

Pollarolo:
Lucio Papirio dittatore Padre amoroso

Porpora:
In amoroso petto (from Arianna in Nasso)
Nobil onda (Adelaïde)

Sarro:
Al valor di Borea armato (from Lucio Vero))