Antonio Florio, Orchestra Barocca Cappella della Pietà de'Turchini - Leonardo Leo: L'Alidoro (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 861 Mb | Total time: 79:37+78:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | CDS 588/1-2 | Recorded: 2008
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 861 Mb | Total time: 79:37+78:03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | CDS 588/1-2 | Recorded: 2008
The Montecassino Monastery recently hosted the score of this comic opera by Leonardo Leo, one of the leading Neapolitan composers of the 18th century, who introduced new stylistic elements to the genre. Cirillo shows in a very exciting way in his direction how nothing actually happens in this opera - apart from a very subtle play of the relationships between the seven protagonists. As with Marivaux, this is about the social differences when the middle class turns to the servants and vice versa, and as in a Feydeauschen comedy, they wander on stage (and leave again) to spy, to portray themselves, or to court someone until everyone is eaten away by doubt.