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Wolf-Ferrari - I gioielli della Madonna
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Label: Naxos - Opera
Cat No: 866038687
Barcode: 0730099038676
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 29th April 2016
A queasy brew of incense and incest, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s 1911 hit opera The Jewels of the Madonna is now almost forgotten, but Opera Holland Park staged it in 2013, and now comes this, apparently its first full recording, taken from a staging in Bratislava last summer. Its love triangle plot, involving a woman aspiring unsympathetically to freedom, her creepy stepbrother and a Camorrist capo, is pure kitsch, but Wolf-Ferrari’s score is skilful, starting Petrushka-style in the midst of a street party, and moving fluidly throughout between public and private, devotional and lustful. 
... what a score it is, a dizzying juxtaposition of all sorts of modernistic influences (Debussy, Strauss & Co) against a wild and raucous evocation of Neopolitan street life – the feral dance of Act 3 is a fine example, in which something akin to Salome’s Dance of the Seven Veils segues into a sort of naive tarantella. ... It’s all a decent effort, and an achievement of which Haider and his Bratislava forces can be proud: the conductor paces it all well, and his players keep up impressively. 
