Il sogno di Partenope (Cantata Opera)
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SIMON MAYR
Il sogno di Partenope (Cantata Opera)
Caroline Adler (soprano)/ Florence Lousseau (mezzo-soprano)/ Andrea Lauren Brown (soprano)/ Cornel Frey (tenor)/ Simon Mayr Ensemble / Franz Hauk
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 1 December 2014
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Franz Hauk and the Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble have spear headed the revival of the music of Johann Simon Mayr who was born in Bavaria but lived in Italy. In the latest instalment of their critically acclaimed recordings they turn to Il sogno di Partenope, an allegorical staged cantata composed to mark the rebuilding of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples following a fire in February 1816.
Mayr's significance as an intermediary between the opera seria of the late eighteenth-century and the melodrama of the early-nineteenth is reflected in this important work, a unique kind of 'cantata opera' of which only the second act survives.
