Bud Roach, Capella Intima - Alessandro Scarlatti: Gli equivoci nel sembiante (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 812 Mb | Total time: 69:02+68:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Musica Omnia | # MO0803B | Recorded: 2018
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 812 Mb | Total time: 69:02+68:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Musica Omnia | # MO0803B | Recorded: 2018
The Lenten season of 1679 was a cold, rainy, and dreary affair. The new Pope, Innocent XI, was no supporter of the increasingly permissive nature of Roman aristocracy, and he took measures to enforce edicts prohibiting staged performances before a paying public, as well as a general ban on the appearance of women on the stage. Reluctantly granted, however, was permission for private performances, and this concession led to the fortuitous circumstances that made the premiere of Scarlatti’s first opera possible—the ingenuity of the Bernini brothers who produced the work; a liberal interpretation of “private performance”; the support and attendance of Queen Christina of Sweden; and, certainly not least, the fact that Pope Innocent had left the city during the carnival, leaving the enforcement of his conservatism to some of the very cardinals who most enjoyed and supported public theatre!