Gagliano: La Flora
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Description
The birth of opera began around 1600 in Florence, where this new genre was used to accompany important political events. The court conductor Marco da Gagliano, who had also become acquainted with Monteverdi's new style during his time in Mantua, created a whole series of operas for the Medici house, but only two have survived.
His opera La Flora, to a libretto by the Florentine court poet Andrea Salvadori, was written for the wedding celebrations of Margerita de' Medici to the Duke of Parma Odoardo Farnese in 1628.
The mythological material has many political references and tells of the love between the wind Zeffiro and the nymph Clori, who changes her name to Flora when she marries and gives birth to many kinds of flowers. Botticelli had already pictorially realised this myth 40 years earlier in his "Birth of Venus" and "La Primavera".
For this recording, more than a dozen solo singers, choristers and a large instrumental cast have come together to bring Gagliano's opera back to life almost 400 years after its premiere!
Tracklisting
La Colombina; Schola Antiqua
Constantinople, Kiya Tabassian, Benedicte Maurseth, Patrick Graham
Filippo Mineccia, Vivica Genaux, Roberta Mameli, Il Groviglio, Marco Angioloni
Soloists, Netherlands Chamber Choir, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen
Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen
Eric Hoeprich, Teunis van der Zwart, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen
Jonatan Alvarado; Ariel Abramovich
Graindelavoix; Bjorn Schmelzer
Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria, Coro Lirico Siciliano, Filippo Arlia, Francesco Costa
Erich Leinsdorf; Wiener Philharmoniker; Cesare Siepi; Fernando Corena; Leontyne Price; Birgit Nilss
Iurii Iushkevich, Johanna Zimmer, Noa Frenkel Reuben Willcox, Rinnat Moriah, Ensemble Modern, Johan
Martyn Brabbins, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers
Filippo Mineccia, Vivica Genaux, Roberta Mameli, Il Groviglio, Marco Angioloni
Francesco Ledda, Opera Discovery Orchestra, Stefanna Kybalova, Valer Borin, Marcello Lippi, Paolo B
Horst Wolf
Sophie Gordeladze, Hector Sandoval, Luca Grassi, Martin Piskorski, Rory Dunne, Cappella Aquileia, T