Serenatas

Serenatas

GLI ORTI ESPERIDI, The Garden of the Hesperides, Nicola Porpora (1686-1768)
Naples, Royal Palace, 1721
Componimento Drammatico in 2 parts
Libretto by Pietro Metastasio

Juan Bautista Otero, Director VENERE, soprano. ADONIS, soprano. MARTE, tenor. EGLE, mezzosoprano. PALEMONE, soprano.
Orchestra -RCOC- Royal Chamber Opera Company: 13 musicians and 5 soloists
CONCERT TIMING: 1'50'' with one pause of 15 minutes.
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Born in Naples in 1686, Nicola Porpora was one of the most remarkable italian opera composer and singing teacher of the eighteenth century. One year younger than Haendel and Bach, he taught at the Conservatorio of Sant Onofrio (1715-1721) in Naples and afterwards he was appointed maestro di capella at the service of prince Hesse-Darmstadt (1711-1725). In 1726 he moved to Venice, to become maestro at  the Ospedale degli Incurabili, and in 1733 he was appointed principal composer of the Opera of the Nobility in London, competing with Haendel at the King's Theater. Back to Vienna as singing teacher in 1752, where the young Haydn was among his main assistants. He wrote over 50 operas, and several serenatas, one of the most refined example is Gli orti Esperidi (1721), commissioned to celebrate the anniversary of empress Elisabeth Christina of Austria.

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Serenatas

ANGELICA e MEDORO, Giovanni Battista Mele (1694 - c.1752)
Madrid, Real Coliseo del Buen Retiro, 1747
Serenata in 2 acts
Libretto by Pietro Metastasio.

Juan Bautista Otero, Director ANGELICA, soprano. MEDORO, soprano. ORLANDO, basso. TIRSI, soprano. LICORI, mezzosoprano. ERGASTO, contralto.
Orchestra -RCOC- Royal Chamber Opera Company Barcelona: 14 musicians and 6 soloists.
CONCERT TIMING: 2 hours with one pause of 15 minutes.
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Composer at the service of the Spanish Court, together with Corselli and Corradini, Giovanni Battista Mele wrote several works commissioned by Farinelli, within his newly conceived artistic programme for the Real Coliseo del Buen Retiro in Madrid. Mele studied with Gaetano Greco for 12 years at the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesù Cristo in Naples. He then traveled to the Madrid of Philip V of Spain, to present his opera “Por Amor y por Lealtad” (Madrid, Teatro de la Santa Cruz,1738) with libretto by Vicente Camacho. At the service of the new spanish king Ferdinand VI, Carlo Broschi, Farinelli, was reengaged as director of royal entertainments. He then commissioned to Mele a "Festa Teatrale", "Angelica e Medoro" to celebrate the anniversary of the spanish queen, Barbara of Bragança in 1747. "Angelica e  Medoro", was produced with a superb cast of singers, including Anna Peruzzi, Virtuosa di Musica Di di S.M. (Angelica), Francesco Giovannini, Mosuco della Real Capella (Medoro), Antonio Montagnana, (Orlando), Maria Heras (Licori) Mariano Buffalini (Tirsi), Elisabetta Uttini, Virtuosa di Musica Di di S.M.(Ergasto). Mele composed several works commisioned by Farinelli before definatly returning to Naples in 1752.

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Serenatas

L'ISOLA DISABITATA and NINFA SMARRITA, Giussepe Bonno (1711-1788) & Nicola Conforto (1718-1793)
L'Isola: Aranjuez,1752. Libretto by Pietro Metastasio.
Ninfa: Aranjuez, 1756. Libretto by Giuseppe Bonechy

Juan Bautista Otero, Director.
ISOLA DISABITATA: COSTANZA,soprano. ENRICO,tenor. GERNANDO,mezzosoprano. SILVIA,soprano.
NINFA SMARRITA: URANIO,Tenor. EGLE,soprano. FILENO,mezzosoprano. LICORI,soprano. SILVIO,soprano. Orchestra:-RCOC- Royal Chamber Opera Company Barcelona: 14 musicians and 4 soloists.
CONCERT TIMING: 2 hours with one pause of 15 minutes.
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Double program of stage Serenatas commissioned by Farinelli for the spanish kings Ferdinand VI and Barbara de Braganza. Performed in Aranjuez in 1752 and 1756 respectively with librettos by Pietro Metastasio's (L'Isola disabitata) and Giuseppe Bonechy (la Ninfa smarrita).

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L'ANGELICA, Nicola Porpora (1686-1768)
Naples, Palazzo dei Principe de Torella, 1720
Libretto by Pietro Metastasio

Juan Bautista Otero, Director ANGELICA, soprano. MEDORO, soprano. ORLANDO, contralto. LICORI, contralto. TITIRO, basso. TIRSI, soprano.
Orchestra -RCOC- Royal Chamber Opera Company Barcelona: 13 músicians and 6 soloists.
CONCERT TIMING: 2 hours and 15 minutes with one pause of 15 minutes.
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The original episodes of Orlando develop during the war between Charlemagne's Christian troops against those of Agramante, king of the Muslims. Orlando, count of Anglant, returns to France after a long period in East, accompanied for Angelica - princess daughter of the Khan of Cathay (China)-, in order wings join Charlemagne's hosts. Conscious of the existing rivalry between her two principal deputies, Orlando and Rinaldo, master of Montalban, for conquering to Angelica, Charlemagne promises the hand of this one to whom against major gallantry it should fight in the battle against the Saracens

. Nevertheless, Angelica, without the minor desire to join her claimants and before the imminent defeat of the Christians, he undertakes the alone escape, with the intention of returning to his kingdom. One initiates thus a pursuit led by Orlando and other many gentlemen, for conquering the oriental princess; marked of numerous incidents, battles, meetings, rejections and new escapes of Angelica, it takes them errant for Europa's diverse points up to reaching a former and thick forest in the surroundings of Paris: there the search will transform definitively.

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