Arias for Marietta Marcolini: Rossini's First Muse (2012)

The lives of the singers who appeared on opera stages in the early 19th century are gradually coming to light. One of them, Marietta Marcolini, is described here as Gioachino Rossini's first muse, but other researchers have described such figures as creative contributors to the opera of the period, which had a substantial improvisational component. That comes through on this release, which gives Swedish mezzo soprano Ann Hallenberg plenty of room to stretch out into ornate decoration. The program includes a few familiar ... Read More

The lives of the singers who appeared on opera stages in the early 19th century are gradually coming to light. One of them, Marietta Marcolini, is described here as Gioachino Rossini's first muse, but other researchers have described such figures as creative contributors to the opera of the period, which had a substantial improvisational component. That comes through on this release, which gives Swedish mezzo soprano Ann Hallenberg plenty of room to stretch out into ornate decoration. The program includes a few familiar Rossini arias, but Marcolini was famous before she ever met the young Rossini, and the primary innovation here is the collection of arias from the almost totally neglected period of Italian opera between Mozart's death and Rossini's rise to prominence. The arias by Johann Simon Mayr, Giuseppe Mosca, Carlo Coccia, and others are mostly big pieces, drawn from among section finales and the like, and they show the development of style in Rossini and even more so in his successors as a... Read Less

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2012, Naïve UPC: 822186053096 CD See All