Unsung Composers

The Music => Composers & Music => Topic started by: alberto on Friday 19 February 2016, 11:02

Title: Nicolai Il Templario at Salzburg Summer Festival
Post by: alberto on Friday 19 February 2016, 11:02
Very seldom the Salzburg Festival hosts romantic unsung operas.
That will happen next summer with a revival (in stage performances) of "Il Templario" (1840, premiered in Torino) ) by Otto Nicolai (libretto in Italian based on Walter Scott's Ivanhoe).
There is a CPO recording, but I suppose the Salzburg performances starring Joyce Di Donato and Juan Diego Florez will attract more attention on the opera.
BTW I know only the attractive overture through a Lp Decca cond. by K.H.Adler dedicated to orchestral pieces from unsung romnatic operas by composers like Goldmark, Goetz, the later Schreker, the "strange couple" Weber-Mahler ("Die Drei Pintos" adapted from the latter).
Title: Re: Nicolai Il Templario at Salzburg Summer Festival
Post by: adriano on Saturday 20 February 2016, 07:47
Yes, Alberto, that DECCA LP with those unsung pieces was quite a sensation at the time - and it had excellent sonics!  :)