Cherubini Edition: CD release and future plans(February 2007) The first opera in the new Cherubini critical edition, Lo sposo di tre e marito di nessuna, has just been released on CD for the first time, recorded at its 2005 revival at the Martina Franca Festival (Dynamic CDS 503/1-2). The opera (whose title translates as Betrothed to three, and married to none) dates from Luigi Cherubini’s early Italian years, when his operas combined elements of Neapolitan opera buffa and commedia dell’arte, experimenting with form and orchestration.
“This set deserves a warm welcome… First performed in 1783, three years before Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, this playful, charming score foreshadows much of the rhythmic vitality of the later masterpiece’s score… The storyline points a little further ahead, however, to some of the cynicism about human amatory impulses depicted in Così fan tutte… An opera well worth reviving, both for its inherent musical quality and the insights it provides to a rich era of operatic history.” Opera Today The Cherubini critical edition is being published under the Simrock imprint, concentrating initially on performing materials while scores for sale are in preparation. Supervised by chief editor Helen Geyer, the series was made possible thanks to the new-found public access to numerous manuscripts, once belonging to the Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin, but now kept in the Biblioteca Jagellonska in Cracow. As well as exploring the composer’s early Italian operas, the edition will also feature definitive versions of his later Paris masterpieces. A new edition of Medea, prepared by Heiko Cullmann, will be unveiled for a production at the Theater an der Wien in March 2008. Read more about the Cherubini Edition > Further information on series: Cherubini Edition > Further information on Work: Lo sposo di tre e marito di nessuna, or Don Pistacchio > News Search |
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