100 YEARS OF ITALIAN OPERA 1800-1810

 

Nan Christie, Sandra Dugdale, Eiddwen Harrhy, Marilyn Hill Smith, Yvonne Kenny, Beryl Korman, Della Jones, Alexandra Mercer, Diana Montague, Ian Caley, Philip Doghan, Michael Goldthorpe, Kevin John, Robin Leggate, Keith Lewis, Alexander Oliver, Christian du Plessis, Alan Opie, Russell Smythe, Roderick Earle, Geoffrey Mitchell Chorus. Philharmonia Orchestra, David Parry, conductor 

 

OPERA RARAS FASCINATING JOURNEY INTO THE FORGOTTEN TREASURES OF THE 19TH CENTURY OPERATIC REPERTOIRE. The first volume in Opera Raras survey of 19th century Italian opera features the music of : Pasiello, Mayr, Pucitta, Cimarosa, Zingarelli, Paer, Nicolini, Winter, Mosca and many others. This period, 1800-1810, saw the beginnings of the transition from the classical to the romantic in opera.

 

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