Julia Sophie Wagner - Mayr: Elena (2021)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 764 MB | Tracks: 32 | 150:42
Style: Classical | Label: Naxos
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 764 MB | Tracks: 32 | 150:42
Style: Classical | Label: Naxos
During the 1813–14 carnival season in Naples, Simon Mayr wrote a much-admired opera semiseria called Elena. The post-revolutionary Napoleonic era saw great enthusiasm for the rescue opera genre and Elena is a perfect example, in which a complex plot, based on French models, sees an innocent falsely accused of a capital offence. Mayr’s subtle accommodation of Neapolitan opera and Viennese Classicism ensures a series of choruses and recitatives that drive the action forward, punctuated with arias, romances, ensembles, lyric richness and moments of witty buffo color.