Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria (complete opera)
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Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria (complete opera)
Franco Fagioli, Romina Basso, Yuriy Mynenko, Dilyara Idrisova, Juan Sancho / Capella Cracoviensis, Jan Tomasz Adamus
[ Decca / 3 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Thursday 24 August 2017
New love, position, power, revenge, disguise, mistaken identity, complications and passionate devotion - the full spectrum of baroque opera seria is here in this new recording of Pergolesi's 'Adriano In Siria'. Franco Fagioli leads the cast, alongside Romina Basso, Yuriy Mynenko, Dilyara Idrisova, Juan Sancho and Cigdem Soyarslan, accompanied by the exuberant Polish orchestra Capella Cracoviensis under the baton of Jan Tomasz Adamus. Famed for his Stabat Mater, Pergolesi died aged just 26 but had already completed four opera seria; 'Adriano in Siria' is the third of these and has a libretto by Metastasio.
"Fagioli really pulls out all the stops as Farnaspe, a role written for the castrato Cafarelli who must have been superhuman in his vocal abilities. Two-octave lunges, phrases without end - Fagioli relishes it all…Romina Basso is a gorgeous Emirena, smoothly vocalised and extremely expressive" Opera Now
"Fagioli traverses two octaves of fioritura seamlessly, many times, and is well-matched by Yuriy Mynenko as a suave Adriano. Tenor Juan Sancho has juicier recitatives to work with as Osroa, King of Parthia and arsonist, and does so with swagger." BBC Music
