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In 2020, in a fitting contribution to the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, the Innsbruck Early Music Festival presented a concert performance of the opera Leonora by his contemporary Ferdinando Paër. With this program selection the conductor Alessandro De Marchi rescued from oblivion the counterpart of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio and its model.
The enterprising and successful composer Paër comes from the tradition of the Italian opera and finds his place at the beginning of the bel canto opera. Spirited recitatives, extended arias, cabalettas, and marvelously mellow duets occur in sequence in his works, including his opera Leonora, premiered in 1804. During the Napoleonic Wars what he presented here was a heroic liberation opera of French stamp. The action corresponds to the spirit of the times, and the faithful wife displays heroism in her rescue of her unjustly imprisoned husband from a self-complacent tyrant’s dungeon. Dark political intrigues are denounced, and honesty, uprightness, and pure love are glorified.
Paër’s musical setting of Fidelio’s heroic story differs from Beethoven’s only opera in many respects. First and foremost because the libretto is in Italian, a language that has very different effects on the melodic, rhythmic, and rhetorical flow of the music and its expressive character. Then there is also the fact that Paër composed considerably more coloraturas for the principal singers than Beethoven did. Here an Italian opera composer of the high Neapolitan school clearly continuing to point back to Hasse and Porpora makes his voice heard. © CPO
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Leonora (Ferdinando Paer)
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Leonora, Act I Scene 1 (Ferdinando Paer)
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Marie Lys, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Luigi De Donato, Artist, MainArtist - Marie Lys, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Luigi De Donato, Artist, MainArtist - Marie Lys, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Luigi De Donato, Artist, MainArtist - Marie Lys, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Leonora, Act I Scene 2 (Ferdinando Paer)
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Luigi De Donato, Artist, MainArtist - Marie Lys, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Luigi De Donato, Artist, MainArtist - Marie Lys, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Leonora, Act I Scene 3 (Ferdinando Paer)
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Luigi De Donato, Artist, MainArtist - Marie Lys, Artist, MainArtist - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Marie Lys, Artist, MainArtist - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Leonora, Act I Scene 4 (Ferdinando Paer)
Carlo Allemano, Artist, MainArtist - Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Carlo Allemano, Artist, MainArtist - Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Leonora, Act I Scene 5 (Ferdinando Paer)
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Leonora, Act I Scene 6 (Ferdinando Paer)
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Luigi De Donato, Artist, MainArtist - Marie Lys, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Marie Lys, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Leonora, Act I Scene 7 (Ferdinando Paer)
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Luigi De Donato, Artist, MainArtist - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Leonora, Act I Scene 8 (Ferdinando Paer)
Carlo Allemano, Artist, MainArtist - Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Carlo Allemano, Artist, MainArtist - Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Leonora, Act I Scene 9 (Ferdinando Paer)
Carlo Allemano, Artist, MainArtist - Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Marie Lys, Artist, MainArtist - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
DISC 2
Leonora, Act II Scene 1 (Ferdinando Paer)
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Paolo Fanale, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Paolo Fanale, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Paolo Fanale, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Leonora, Act II Scene 2 (Ferdinando Paer)
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Paolo Fanale, Artist, MainArtist - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Paolo Fanale, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Paolo Fanale, Artist, MainArtist - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Paolo Fanale, Artist, MainArtist - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Paolo Fanale, Artist, MainArtist - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Leonora, Act II Scene 3 (Ferdinando Paer)
Carlo Allemano, Artist, MainArtist - Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Carlo Allemano, Artist, MainArtist - Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Paolo Fanale, Artist, MainArtist - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Leonora, Act II Scene 4 (Ferdinando Paer)
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Paolo Fanale, Artist, MainArtist - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Leonora, Act II Scene 5 (Ferdinando Paer)
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Paolo Fanale, Artist, MainArtist - Marie Lys, Artist, MainArtist - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Marie Lys, Artist, MainArtist - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Leonora, Act II Scene 6 (Ferdinando Paer)
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Paolo Fanale, Artist, MainArtist - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Paolo Fanale, Artist, MainArtist - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Leonora, Act II Scene 7 (Ferdinando Paer)
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Paolo Fanale, Artist, MainArtist - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist - Krešimir Špicer, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Paolo Fanale, Artist, MainArtist - Marie Lys, Artist, MainArtist - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist - Krešimir Špicer, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Carlo Allemano, Artist, MainArtist - Alessandro de Marchi, Conductor, MainArtist - Renato Girolami, Artist, MainArtist - Ferdinando Paer, Composer - Luigi De Donato, Artist, MainArtist - Paolo Fanale, Artist, MainArtist - Marie Lys, Artist, MainArtist - Eleonora Bellocci, Artist, MainArtist - Innsbrucker Festwochenorchester, Orchestra, MainArtist - Krešimir Špicer, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
Album review
In 2020, in a fitting contribution to the celebration of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, the Innsbruck Early Music Festival presented a concert performance of the opera Leonora by his contemporary Ferdinando Paër. With this program selection the conductor Alessandro De Marchi rescued from oblivion the counterpart of Beethoven’s opera Fidelio and its model.
The enterprising and successful composer Paër comes from the tradition of the Italian opera and finds his place at the beginning of the bel canto opera. Spirited recitatives, extended arias, cabalettas, and marvelously mellow duets occur in sequence in his works, including his opera Leonora, premiered in 1804. During the Napoleonic Wars what he presented here was a heroic liberation opera of French stamp. The action corresponds to the spirit of the times, and the faithful wife displays heroism in her rescue of her unjustly imprisoned husband from a self-complacent tyrant’s dungeon. Dark political intrigues are denounced, and honesty, uprightness, and pure love are glorified.
Paër’s musical setting of Fidelio’s heroic story differs from Beethoven’s only opera in many respects. First and foremost because the libretto is in Italian, a language that has very different effects on the melodic, rhythmic, and rhetorical flow of the music and its expressive character. Then there is also the fact that Paër composed considerably more coloraturas for the principal singers than Beethoven did. Here an Italian opera composer of the high Neapolitan school clearly continuing to point back to Hasse and Porpora makes his voice heard. © CPO
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 42 track(s)
- Total length: 02:29:23
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Eleonora Bellocci
- Composer: Ferdinando Paer
- Label: CPO
- Genre: Classical Opera
(C) 2021 CPO (P) 2021 CPO
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