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The opening night of Vincenzo Bellini’s first professional opera, Bianca e Fernando (NOT Gernando), set to take place at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples as part of a gala evening in January 1826, was cancelled at the last minute for reasons that remain unclear, even though it appears that at the time, use of the name Fernando in the title was forbidden because Ferdinando was the name of the Bourbon heir to the throne, and no form of it could be used on a royal stage. But in May of the same year, under the title Bianca e Gernando, the piece was finally premiered, with great success. But after the triumph of Il pirata in Milan in 1827, Bellini was commissioned by Genoa in 1828 to offer a new work – too late for the composer to write anything new: he resorted to the age-old trick of recycling old material, in this case his own Bianca, even though he was confronted with the difficult task of adapting several episodes to suit the voices of the new performers for the new production. He reverted to the former title Bianca et Fernando and it is that heavily revised score which has been produced, on and off, up to the 1980s, even though quite rarely. But in 2016, the famous festival Rossini in Wildbad decided to revert to the first version – which is radically different from the revised score, one should add –, a world premiere since 1826, which was duly recorded (live, of course) and is now available to aficionados in that excellent interpretation, with a brilliant cast and a highly polished orchestra. A brand new Bellini, 190 years after it was written! © SM/Qobuz
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Bianca e Gernando, Act I (New Edition by F. Bauer) (Vincenzo Bellini)
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Maxim Mironov, Artist - Poznan Camerata Bach Choir, Choir - Norbert Vossen, Engineer - Roland Ruble, Producer - Siggi Mehne, Engineer - Gheorghe Vlad, Artist - Anette Sidhu-Ingenhoff, Editor - Zong Shi, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Maxim Mironov, Artist, MainArtist - Poznan Camerata Bach Choir, Choir - Gheorghe Vlad, Artist - Zong Shi, Artist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Vittorio Prato, Artist - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Maxim Mironov, Artist, MainArtist - Marina Viotti, Artist - Gheorghe Vlad, Artist - Zong Shi, Artist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Vittorio Prato, Artist, MainArtist - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Vittorio Prato, Artist - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Maxim Mironov, Artist - Marina Viotti, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Vittorio Prato, Artist, MainArtist - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Maxim Mironov, Artist - Marina Viotti, Artist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Marina Viotti, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Poznan Camerata Bach Choir, Choir, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Silvia Dalla Benetta, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Poznan Camerata Bach Choir, Choir - Silvia Dalla Benetta, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Vittorio Prato, Artist, MainArtist - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Maxim Mironov, Artist - Poznan Camerata Bach Choir, Choir - Marina Viotti, Artist - Silvia Dalla Benetta, Artist - Gheorghe Vlad, Artist - Zong Shi, Artist - Mar Campo, Artist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Vittorio Prato, Artist - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Maxim Mironov, Artist - Poznan Camerata Bach Choir, Choir - Marina Viotti, Artist - Silvia Dalla Benetta, Artist, MainArtist - Gheorghe Vlad, Artist - Zong Shi, Artist - Mar Campo, Artist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
DISC 2
Bianca e Gernando, Act II (New Edition by F. Bauer) (Vincenzo Bellini)
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Vittorio Prato, Artist - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Maxim Mironov, Artist, MainArtist - Norbert Vossen, Engineer - Roland Ruble, Producer - Siggi Mehne, Engineer - Anette Sidhu-Ingenhoff, Editor - Zong Shi, Artist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Vittorio Prato, Artist, MainArtist - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Maxim Mironov, Artist - Poznan Camerata Bach Choir, Choir
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Silvia Dalla Benetta, Artist, MainArtist - Mar Campo, Artist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Silvia Dalla Benetta, Artist, MainArtist - Mar Campo, Artist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Maxim Mironov, Artist - Silvia Dalla Benetta, Artist - Mar Campo, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Maxim Mironov, Artist, MainArtist - Silvia Dalla Benetta, Artist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Luca Dall'Amico, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Luca Dall'Amico, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Luca Dall'Amico, Artist - Maxim Mironov, Artist, MainArtist - Silvia Dalla Benetta, Artist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Luca Dall'Amico, Artist - Maxim Mironov, Artist, MainArtist - Silvia Dalla Benetta, Artist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Vittorio Prato, Artist - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Maxim Mironov, Artist, MainArtist - Poznan Camerata Bach Choir, Choir - Silvia Dalla Benetta, Artist - Gheorghe Vlad, Artist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer - Antonino Fogliani, Conductor - Virtuosi Brunensis, Orchestra - Luca Dall'Amico, Artist, MainArtist - Maxim Mironov, Artist - Poznan Camerata Bach Choir, Choir - Silvia Dalla Benetta, Artist
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
Album review
The opening night of Vincenzo Bellini’s first professional opera, Bianca e Fernando (NOT Gernando), set to take place at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples as part of a gala evening in January 1826, was cancelled at the last minute for reasons that remain unclear, even though it appears that at the time, use of the name Fernando in the title was forbidden because Ferdinando was the name of the Bourbon heir to the throne, and no form of it could be used on a royal stage. But in May of the same year, under the title Bianca e Gernando, the piece was finally premiered, with great success. But after the triumph of Il pirata in Milan in 1827, Bellini was commissioned by Genoa in 1828 to offer a new work – too late for the composer to write anything new: he resorted to the age-old trick of recycling old material, in this case his own Bianca, even though he was confronted with the difficult task of adapting several episodes to suit the voices of the new performers for the new production. He reverted to the former title Bianca et Fernando and it is that heavily revised score which has been produced, on and off, up to the 1980s, even though quite rarely. But in 2016, the famous festival Rossini in Wildbad decided to revert to the first version – which is radically different from the revised score, one should add –, a world premiere since 1826, which was duly recorded (live, of course) and is now available to aficionados in that excellent interpretation, with a brilliant cast and a highly polished orchestra. A brand new Bellini, 190 years after it was written! © SM/Qobuz
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 24 track(s)
- Total length: 01:57:32
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Silvia Dalla Benetta
- Composer: Vincenzo Bellini
- Label: Naxos
- Genre: Classical Opera
(C) 2017 Naxos (P) 2017 Naxos
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