Gennaro D’Alessandro (Napoli, 1717?-ivi, post 1778)
This recording production rebuilds the complex events of a composition by Gennaro D”Alessandro (Neapolitan musician, pupil of Leonardo Leo) believed to be hopelessly lost after the bombing in Dresden during the Second World War: the “Ottone”, opera on the libretto by Antonio Salvi accommodated by Carlo Goldoni. The opera was performed for the first time at the Grimani of S. Giovanni Grisostomo Theatre in Venice in the carnival season from December 26, 1739 to January 31, 1740 in the presence of Frederick Christian Leopold. In 2019 the musicologist Giovanni Tribuzio could finally reconstruct the Ottone thanks to several sources and witnesses. A score from the Biblioteca Estense Universitaria in Modena, partially hands down the work by Gennaro D”Alessandro (including the recitatives and ten arias). This new version was, in fact, represented with great success as “Adelaide/Adelaide, Queen of Italy” in 1744 in Prague, Leipzig and Hamburg. To this highly significant finding we have to add the discovery of a precious nucleus of arias, from the private library of composer Everett Burton Helm (now at the Lilly Library in Bloomington and the National Library of Australia in Canberra).
Tracklist
Gennaro D’Alessandro (1717?-post 1778)
«Overtura» a quattro strumenti in Sol maggiore, 1744 ca.
1. Spiritoso [3:48] – 2. Largo e spiccato [1:14] – 3. Presto [2:44]
Pietro Chiarini (1717?-post 1765)
4. Atto ii, scena 9: Tornerò fra le catene (Matilde) [8:08]
Gennaro D’Alessandro
5. Atto i, scena 5: Se per me tu senti amore (Adelaide) [9:09]
6. Atto i, scena 8: Arrida il ciel sereno (Clodomiro) [5:37]
7. Atto ii, scena 11: Tuona il cielo e spaventato (Adelaide) [5:37]
8. Atto ii, scena 4: Da te lontan, mia vita (Ottone) [8:03]
Santo Lapis (1699-1765)
9. Atto i, scena 4: La fronda, che circonda (Idelberto) [5:04]
Gennaro D’Alessandro
10. Atto iii, scena 2: T’inganni se speri (Matilde) [4:40]
11. Atto iii, scena 3: Stringer fra lacci un core (Adelaide) [10:54]
12. Atto iii, scena 8: Se vive amante un core (Ottone) [6:39]
Anonimo
13. Atto iii, scena 9: Quel basso vapore (Idelberto) [5:08]
- Composer: Gennaro D’Alessandro (Napoli, 1717?-ivi, post 1778)
- Performers: Francesco Divito, sopranista · Orchestra barocca “Benedetto Marcello” di Teramo · Ettore Maria del Romano, direttore
- Musicological Text: Giovanni Tribuzio
- Historical Period: Classicism
- Code: TC710401
- Edition: October 2024
- Barcode: 8007194108217
- Set: 1
- Total tracks: 13
- Total duration: 77:39
- Texts: Arias from Adelaide. Hamburg, 1744