Cecchina Suonatrice
) | Label: BONGIOVANNI Catalog: GB2607/8-2 Format: COMPACT DISC Iolanda Massimo Alan Starovoitov Paolo Ingrasciotta Pierluigi D?Aloia Ramiro Maturana Annya Pinto Orchestra SinfonA few weeks after Rossini made his debut at the San Moisè opera house in Venice with La cambiale di matrimonio; (with libretto by Gaetano Rossi); on 26 December 1810 the same venue hosted Cecchina suonatrice di ghironda; (another libretto by Gaetano Rossi); by an older composer Pietro Generali (1773?-1832). Both works were a farsa – a one-act form that was not necessarily comic. Cecchina in fact belongs to the ‘sentimental’ genre of then newly successful novels; with comedy traditionally confined to a few scenes featuring a pair of bass characters: The action centres on a love-affair made difficult by social differences between the soprano Cecchina; a young woman also from Savoy who has made her fortune on the streets of the French capital; and the tenor Enrico; a noble disguised as a penniless painter. The basic plot is the same one which Rossi would later propose to Donizetti with Linda di Chamounix (1842).  Price: $47.98 |