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Real Compañía Ópera de Cámara

orquesta, discográfica, editorial

The Royal Chamber Opera Company - RCOC- is a baroque orchestra based in Barcelona, founded by the orchestra conductor and musicologist, Juan Bautista Otero with the stage director Isidro Olmo. RCOC forms part of the recording company RCOC-RECORDS and RCOC-EDITORIAL of a project to recover the musical historical patrimony of Spain, as a private initiative. RCOC emulates the experience carried out by Farinelli the famous castrated when, from his position as of director of the royal entertainments, which he founded for the first time, the first stable orchestra of chamber opera with itinerant character that accompanied the court in its continuous displacements to different Royal Locations. RCOC, centres its activity on the recovery of Spanish musical patrimony and of the old bourbonic kingdoms in Italy during the 18th century, with special care of the scenic music. We admire the skill of the compositiva technique born in the Neapolitan school and of its more significant members: Martí i Soler, David Pérez, Domènec Terradellas, Mariana Martínez, Nicola Porpora, Domenico Scarlatti and others. The catalogue of RCOC-Editions is composed of titles of extraordinary value that, mostly, have never been published. The Royal Chamber Opera Company has positioned itself as one of the most prestigious baroque orchestras, in the exclusive panorama of the antique music, thanks to its concerts and scenic task and also for the successful recordings of RCOC in the world market: Orlando, by Nicola Porpora, Ifigenia in Aulide, by Martín i Soler and Aminta, il rè pastore, by Antonio Mazzoni, commissioned especially by Farinelli to be performed in the Real Coliseo del Buen Retiro, in Madrid on the birthday of Fernando VI of Borbón. The three recordings constitute authentic ephemerides for being absolute world-wide premieres from his composition in the 18th century. In this way Orlando, performed on the 300 anniversary of the death of Farinelli and in which he made his debut as a singer on the Napolitan stages; Ifigenia in Aulide, recovered on the 250th anniversary of the Valencian composer, constitutes the first and only recording of one of his serious operas as well as the only operatic recording of the composer made in 2006, the year of his commemoration; Aminta, il rè pastore is the first world-wide recording of the long and fruitful period of Farinelli in Spain. At present RCOC-RECORDS has just presented the world-wide launch of Artaserse, the first world-wide recording of a complete opera of the composer from Barcelona, Domènec Terradellas and it is preparing three more discographical projects, all of them world-wide premieres since its creation: Sesostri, rè of Egitto de Terradellas, Mariana Martínez, portrait of a composer and the scenic cantata Il Sogno by Vicent Martín i Soler.