ANTONIO CAGNONI
(Pavia, 1828 – Bergamo, 1896)
DON BUCEFALO
CDS 634/1-2 - 2CDs
Tracklist
CD1
Technical Information
Code: CDS 634/1-2 - 2 CDs
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Barcode: 8007144606343
Audio Format: DDD
Atto I
1 Or che il sole uscì col giorno (Coro)
2 Ah! Colui che mi dice... (Rosa)
3 Oh! Come questo core (Conte)
4 Ma si ragazze mie... (Don Bucefalo)
5 Io dirò... (Agata)
6 Ma dite: voi con Rosa... (Carlino)
7 Fra gli scogli e la procella (Rosa)
07’34’’
08’28’’
04’48’’
02’39’’
07’14’’
02’22’’
08’03’’
AttoII
8 Qui congregati e inosservati (Coro)
9 Ingrata fantasia! Tu m’abbandoni! (Don Bucefalo)
10 Chi mi ha tolto... (Rosa)
11 É permesso? (Don Marco)
12 Ai riguardi io do un addio (Carlino)
13 Ah traditor! (Carlino, Don Bucefalo)
04’23’’
09’59’’
03’02’’
02’07’’
06’12’’
03’07’’
TOTAL
70’07’’
CD2
Total Running Time: 107’ 13’’
CD1 : 70’07 CD2: 37’06’’
Notes: ITA –ENG – GER- FRE
Libretto: ITA - ENG (available at
www.dynamic.it)
Sung in: Italian
Recorded on: 20-22/7/ 2008
Packaging: jewel box
Strong Point
Dynamic continues its path to introduce composers and operas
that usually are not included in traditional repertoires. It’s the
turn of Antonio Cagnoni, a long forgotten Italian composer who
achieved prestige and fame during the second half of the 19th
century.
Atto III
1 No, non serve altro... (Don Marco)
2 Ma vedi se davvero... (Agata)
3 Non fuggirmi, mio ben... (Conte, Rosa)
4 Servo di lor, signori professori (Don Bucefalo)
5 Trai, trai, trai... (Don Bucefalo)
6 Grazie, grazie, miei cari (Don Bucefalo)
7 O colli nativi! (Coro)
8 Signor vincemmo! (Don Bucefalo, Don Marco)
9 Son rimasta... (Rosa, Conte, Don Marco, Don Bucefalo)
10 Dunque ingrata! (Carlino, Rosa)
11 D’ineffabile contento... (Rosa)
01’05’’
05’14’’
08’47’’
02’06’’
04’29’’
01’04’’
02’35’’
03’34’’
01’36’’
02’03’’
04’27’’
TOTAL
37’06’’
“Don Bucefalo” recording is a new World Premiere.
Special discount on double cd price: 20%
Cast and Program Information
Melodramma giocoso in tre atti
libretto by Calisto Bassi
Don Bucefalo was first staged on 28th June 1847 at the Milan
Conservatory, as the final test of the nineteen-year-old Antonio Cagnoni
(1828-1896)
Conductor
Massimiliano Caldi
This was his third opera (after Rosalia di San Miniato and I due
Savoiardi), but the first to bring him success. Critics of the time saw in
him “the germ of lively, vivid, spontaneous wit” and hoped that he would
find a far-sighted impresario, willing to invest in order to open up for him
“the path to a public theatrical career”.
Angelica Girardi
Massimiliano Silvestri
Filippo Morace
Date Mizuki
Francesca De Giorgi
Graziano De Pace
Francesco Marsiglia
Indeed, after its “première” in Milan, Don Bucefalo was performed again
in various theatres both in Italy and abroad; it won success wherever it
was staged and led Ricordi to buy the rights to the opera.
Don Bucefalo adopts all the formulas of the comic genre (from its vocal
roles to its structures, to the writing of recitative and “spoken” passages,
to the arrangement of instrumentation), it is certainly part of the tradition
but at the same time makes fun of it, manipulates it by intervening in all
its fields: tempi, rhythms, vocal styles. The opera thus appears as a synthesis and as a step beyond the stereotypes of contemporary comic
opera.
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Rosa
Carlino
Don Bucefalo
Agata
Gianetta
Don Marco
Il Conte di Belprato
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