Berenice, que fai… Or frantic Berenice. Metastasio's heroin, facing a dilemma of love versus duty, inspired the great operatic composers such as Hasse, Haydn, Mozart such as one of their female peers, still unknown today, Marianna Martinez, contemporary and even neighboring some of them.
To interpret this colorful character, three singers and an orchestra: the mezzo Lea Desandre, rewarded at the Victoires de la Musique in 2017, the sopranos Natalie Perez and Chantal Santon-Jeffery, and the impetuous conductor David Stern at the head of his period instruments-ensemble, Opera Fuoco.
True actors, these musicians restore the theatrical dimension of these scores without sacrificing the sensitive and fragile aspect of the character. An emotional complexity, between exhilarating madness and more tragic pages, that we find in Hasse's Sinfonia, from his opera Antigono and of which Opera Fuoco gives us a full version of panache.
Franz-Joseph Haydn · Scena di Berenice, Hob.XXIVa:10
1. Berenice, che fai recitativo
2. Non partir bell'idol mio aria
Johann Christian Bach · Catone in Utica
3. Confusa, smarrita (III, 2) aria
Mariana Martinez · Scena di Berenice
4. Berenice, che fai recitativo
5. Non partir bell'idol mio aria
Antonio Mazzoni · Antigono · Natalie Perez
6. Berenice, che fai recitativo
7. Non partir bell'idol mio aria
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · A Berenice, K.70/61c· Chantal Santon-Jeffery
8. A Berenice recitativo
9. Sol nascente aria
Johann Adolf Hasse · Antigono
Sinfonia
10. Allegro di molto
11. Andantino
12. Allegro di molto
Scena di Berenice
13. Berenice, che fai recitativo
14. Non partir bell'idol mio aria
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