The name of Leonardo Vinci, not to be confused with Leonardo da Vinci, is little known today, but he succeeded in the intensely competitive opera scene of the 1720s in Naples, at that time one of the greatest cities in the world. His comic operas were among the first to break up the Baroque style and push it toward the simplicity and lightness to come, but here the focus is on opera seria, which he wrote in abundance and for which he commanded libretti from Pietro Metastasio and other top writers of the day. These were ...
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The name of Leonardo Vinci, not to be confused with Leonardo da Vinci, is little known today, but he succeeded in the intensely competitive opera scene of the 1720s in Naples, at that time one of the greatest cities in the world. His comic operas were among the first to break up the Baroque style and push it toward the simplicity and lightness to come, but here the focus is on opera seria, which he wrote in abundance and for which he commanded libretti from Pietro Metastasio and other top writers of the day. These were virtuoso works, meant to show off a castrato's powers, and they turn out well in voice of the rather punk-imaged Italian countertenor Filippo Mineccia and the small-but-mighty instrumental group Stile Galante. "Galant" is not really the right word for these pieces, and Mineccia is at his best in high-octane arias like "Nella foresta," from the opera Medo (1728). His voice seems to settle into a rather vibrato-heavy middle register and then bloom with delightfully unexpected effect into...
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