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Callas is Medea. Of course, she was Tosca and a host of other operatic characters as well, thanks to her uncanny ability to adapt her voice and style to the requirements of a role, but Medea is high among her most complete characterizations. It also was a role she sang often–too often for the health […]

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One popular view of Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma is that the title role is so outrageously difficult to sing—and the work itself so little worth doing if you haven’t a soprano up to the mark—that the opera has only survived, in the years since its première in 1831, as a vehicle for a few particularly endowed […]

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Abstract: I Puritani is the masterpiece that crowned the creation of the Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini, being remarked and appreciated for the richness of his melodicity and profound symbols filled with the inspiration and creativity of a creator. This was the last of the ten works composed by Bellini, whose disappearance was premature, at only […]

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Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini was one of the most important composers of Italian opera in his time. He was born in 1801 in Catania, Sicily, to a family already steeped in music; his father and grandfather were both career musicians. He began composing before receiving any formal music education. Bellini developed a reputation for […]

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Historical Background “One of the most profoundly moving operatic experiences of my life, Anna Bolena suddenly showed me that Donizetti was a musicodramatic creator of far greater power and importance than any of my earlier contacts with others of his operas had led me to believe”, writes Weinstock in his preface to his Donizetti monograph […]

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“Il Nerone” – Cantata per Soprano e Basso Continuo – Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 – 1725) – WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING. Centaurus Music Int. Studio Recording “Alessandro Scarlatti – Poi che riseppe Orfeo – Cantate – WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING” – ℗ 2018 First Edition ℗ 2001. Maria Carla Curìa Soprano Scarlatti Camera Ensemble Luca Casagrande Artistic Director […]

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“L’ amor mio” – Aria da camera – Gaetano Donizetti (1797 – 1848). Centaurus Music Int. Studio Recording “Gaetano Donizetti – Le crépuscule – Arie da camera” – ℗ 2016 – Remix 2019. Recorded June 29, 2015 at the “Accademia di Musica e Danza F. Gaffurio” – Lodi (I). Baritone Luca Casagrande Piano M.° Fulvia […]

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“Chanson de Zora” (“La petite bohémienne”) – Péchés de vieillesse Album II n.° 5 – Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868). Luca Casagrande-Centaurus Music Studio Recording “À Grenade – La nuit règne – Melodie da camera” – ℗ 2018 Maria Carla Curìa Soprano M.° Maurizio Agostini Piano Maria Carla Curìa & Maurizio Agostini Artistic Directors Luca […]

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Luca Casagrande  – “Per l’ampio mar d’amore” – Cantata for Bass & Basso Continuo – Antonio Cesti (1623 – 1669) – WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING.   Centaurus Music Int. LIVE Recording “Giovanni Legrenzi – Antonio Cesti – Amore e Virtà – Cantate – WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING” – ℗ 2007 Recorded at the S. Giorgio in Corneno […]

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Maria Carla Curìa – “Le sylvain” Romance from “Péchés de vieillesse” Album III “Morceaux réservés” N.° 9 – Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868). Centaurus Music Int. Studio Album “Gioacchino Rossini – À Grenade – La Nuit règne – Melodie da Camera” – ℗ 2018. Maria Carla Curìa Soprano M.° Maurizio Agostini Piano Maria Carla Curìa […]