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Tasca - A Santa Lucia | CPO 5551812

Tasca - A Santa Lucia

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Label: CPO

Cat No: 5551812

Barcode: 0761203518128

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 29th November 2019

Contents

Artists

Ray M Wade Jr (tenor)
Iordanka Derilova (soprano)
Cornelia Marschall (soprano)
Ulf Paulsen (baritone)
Rita Kapfhammer (alto)
Cezary Rotkiewicz (bass-baritone)
David Ameln (tenor)
Opernchor, Extrachor und Kinderchor des Anhaltischen Theaters Dessau
Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau

Conductor

Markus L Frank

Works

Tasca, Pierantonio

A Santa Lucia (melodrama in 2 acts)

Artists

Ray M Wade Jr (tenor)
Iordanka Derilova (soprano)
Cornelia Marschall (soprano)
Ulf Paulsen (baritone)
Rita Kapfhammer (alto)
Cezary Rotkiewicz (bass-baritone)
David Ameln (tenor)
Opernchor, Extrachor und Kinderchor des Anhaltischen Theaters Dessau
Anhaltische Philharmonie Dessau

Conductor

Markus L Frank

About

During the late nineteenth century countless composers modeled their operas on Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana, hoping that this strategy would likewise bring them success. These composers included not only Leoncavallo with his Pagliacci but also the young composer Pierantonio Tasca (1864-1934). Although Tasca had grown up in Sicily, in A Santa Lucia he depicted Naples, Italy’s largest city and a metropolitan world plagued by poverty and the everyday struggle for survival. This opera celebrated its premiere not in Naples, not in Rome or Milan, but at the Kroll Opera in Berlin on 16 November 1892 and enjoyed great success. For some years this captivating, impassioned, and tender music and its highly atmospheric local colour earned Tasca the rank of the most esteemed “young Italian” composer in Germany, right along with Mascagni and Leoncavallo.

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