Pergolesi: Il Prigionier Superbo & La Serva Padrona

Antonio Lozano (Sostrate), Maria Rodrìguez Cusì (Rosmene), Marina de Liso (Metalce), Ruth Rosique (Ericlea), Marina Comparato (Viridate), Giacinta Nicotra (Micisda), Alessandra Marianelli (Serpina), Carlo Lepore (Uberto), Jean Meningue (Vespone)

Accademia Barocca de I Virtuosi Italiani, Corrado...

The winner here...is La serva padrona...there's bags of energy not only from the two singers but also from the excellent mute part of the servant Vespone...Marianelli is a sharp-witted, pert-voiced... — International Record Review, June 2013 More…

Release Date: 1st Oct 2012
Catalogue No: 108068
Label: Arthaus Musik

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Pergolesi: Il prigionier superbo

Antonio Lozano (Sostrate), Maria Rodrìguez Cusì (Rosmene), Marina de Liso (Metalce), Ruth Rosique (Ericlea), Marina Comparato (Viridate), Giacinta Nicotra (Micisda)
Accademia Barocca de I Virtuosi Italiani
Corrado Rovaris (conductor) & Henning Brockhaus (stage director)

Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona

Alessandra Marianelli (Serpina), Carlo Lepore (Uberto), Jean Meningue (Vespone)
Accademia Barocca de I Virtuosi Italiani
Corrado Rovaris (conductor) & Henning Brockhaus (stage director)

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The Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini, which has been devoting itself to the research and performance of Pergolesi‘s music for years now, had his operas recorded live at the annual Music Festival in Jesi.

Released on this BD are two productions from Jesi of one almost forgotten opera, Il prigionier superbo, and one of Pergolesi’s most popular works, La serva padrona, combined like they were at the original premiere. Il prigionier superbo tells the story of two rival kings and a princess in distress. In order to strengthen his power, Metalce imprisons his rival Sostrate. Further, he tries to obtain Rosmene’s love. Proud like her father Sostrate, she persistently thwarts the tyrant, while on the other hand she forces herself to hate her beloved Viridate. La serva padrona is the short comedy of Serpina and Uberto: the wily maidservant, hell-bent on her willing to become the mistress of the house, thinks up a plan in order to convince her master to marry her.

Both operas were directed by Henning Brockhaus, who placed Il prigionier superbo within a contemporary setting inside a cave and La serva padrona in a circus. The casts both brilliantly show their versatile voices in numerous virtuosic arias accompanied by the Baroque specialists of the Accademia Barocca de I Virtuosi Italiani, conducted by Corrado Rovaris.

Sound Format: PCM Stereo, dts-HD Master Audio 5.1 (Blu-ray)

Picture Format: 16:9, 1080i FULL HD

50 GB (Dual Layer)

Subtitles: IT (Original Language), GB, DE, FR, ES, KOR, JP

Running Time: 177 mins

FSK: 0

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Accademia Barocca de I Virtuosi Italiani, Corrado Rovaris (conductor) & Henning Brockhaus (stage director)

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June 2013

The winner here...is La serva padrona...there's bags of energy not only from the two singers but also from the excellent mute part of the servant Vespone...Marianelli is a sharp-witted, pert-voiced Serpina...Lepore is a suitably blustery Uberto, the playing of Accademia Barocca is exemplary, with some particularly splendid trumpet playing

Pergolesi: Il Prigionier Superbo & La Serva Padrona

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