Giordano - Marcella | Dynamic CDS573

Giordano - Marcella

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Label: Dynamic

Cat No: CDS573

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 28th April 2008

Contents

Artists

Serena Daolio
Danilo Formaggia
Pierluigi Dilengite
Natalizia Carone
Angelica Girardi
Mara d’Antini
Maria Rosa Rondinelli
Marcello Rosiello
Giovanni Coletta
Graziano de Pace
Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia
Bratislava Chamber Choir

Conductor

Manlio Benzi

Works

Giordano, Umberto

Marcella

Artists

Serena Daolio
Danilo Formaggia
Pierluigi Dilengite
Natalizia Carone
Angelica Girardi
Mara d’Antini
Maria Rosa Rondinelli
Marcello Rosiello
Giovanni Coletta
Graziano de Pace
Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia
Bratislava Chamber Choir

Conductor

Manlio Benzi

About

This is the world premiere recording on CD of Umberto Giordano’s Marcella. This very rarely performed opera was staged again only recently as the original score was partly destroyed during a bombing raid in World War II. Thankfully the score was restored and was performed in 2007 by The Martina Franca-Valle D’Itria Festival to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the first performance (1907, Teatro alla Scala).

The opera is divided into three parts and features the classical theme of the prince and the pauper. Marcella is a delicate and feminine character who shows great courage in giving up a dream-like love relationship rather than making a compromise. The music is refined and full of shadings and echoes that are reminiscent of La Bohème and La Traviata.

Umberto Giordano is one of the most important members of the Italian school of Verismo which flourished at the beginning of the nineteenth century and involved all art forms. The libretto clearly evokes the hard female condition within a society that used to favour men.

Recorded Palazzo Ducale, Martina Franca, 2007.

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