Cimarosa: Gli Orazi e i Curiazi (2007)

Domenico Cimarosa, one of the most prominent composers of opera seria and opera buffa in the generation before Rossini, wrote almost 50 operas, but today his comedy Il matrimonio segreto is the only one to remain even on the fringes of the standard repertoire. Gli Orazi e i Curiazi, which Cimarosa set to an odd and inert libretto, tells a kind of Romeo and Juliet story in which two pairs of lovers are threatened because their countries are at war. When the victor returns from the conflict, having killed his sister's beloved ... Read More

Domenico Cimarosa, one of the most prominent composers of opera seria and opera buffa in the generation before Rossini, wrote almost 50 operas, but today his comedy Il matrimonio segreto is the only one to remain even on the fringes of the standard repertoire. Gli Orazi e i Curiazi, which Cimarosa set to an odd and inert libretto, tells a kind of Romeo and Juliet story in which two pairs of lovers are threatened because their countries are at war. When the victor returns from the conflict, having killed his sister's beloved, she accuses him of murder, so he stabs her to death and the crowds acclaim him as a hero. Cimarosa's music fits the Classical model to a T, and the forms, the harmonic structures, the orchestration, and the melodic patterns are Mozartian, but taken as a whole the opera would not be mistaken for Mozart. The gorgeous duet "Se torni vincitor" illustrates why. The lovers are about to be separated and the text gives voice to their confusion about their conflicting loyalties and their... Read Less

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