Rossini - Stabat Mater

Stabat Mater dolorosa (Introduction)
Cujus animam gementem
Quis est homo
Pro peccatis suae gentis
Eja, Mater, fons amoris
Sancta Mater, istud agas
Fac, ut portem Christi mortem
Inflammatus et accensus
Quando corpus morietur
Amen. In sempiterna saecula

Anna Netrebko - soprano
Ildebrando d'Arcangelo - bass-baritone
Marianna Pizzolato – mezzo-soprano
Matthew Polenzani – tenor

Coro and Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano – conductor

Rossini's Stabat Mater, held at the Grosses Festspiele, Salzburg on 8. and 9. Aug 2011

Although Rossini focused heavily on opera, he was still able to find some time to undertake commissions of a non-operatic nature. Supreme among these was to be the Stabat Mater. "I would say that the Stabat Mater - the picture of the Virgin Mary standing below the crucifix watching her son die and this beautiful set of prayers or scene setting is sublimely put to music by Rossini." says Maestro Pappano.

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2. La Pietra Del Paragone (mp4)

Giocondo - José Manuel Zapata
La Marchesa Clarice – Sonia Prina
Aspasia - Jennifer Holloway
Fulvia – Laura Giordano
Asdrubale - François Lis
Macrobio - Joan Martín-Royo
Pacuvio - Christian Senn
Fabrizio - Filippo Polinelli

Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma
Ensemble Matheus
Jean-Christophe Spinosi – conductor

December 2007

La pietra del paragone (The Touchstone) is an opera, or melodramma giocoso, in two acts by Gioachino Rossini, to an original Italian libretto by Luigi Romanelli. La pietra del paragone was first performed at La Scala, Milan, on 26 September 1812. It was the composer's first commission from a major opera house and was an instant success, being performed 53 times during its first season.

The improbable, not to say convoluted plot, involves the affluent Count Asdrubale who wants a wife who will love him for himself not his status or wealth. He is pursued by three widows and constructs a plot to be seen to be bankrupt which enables him to ascertain that it is only Clarice of the three who really loves him. She in turn tests the Count by disguising herself as her own twin brother and threatening to remove Clarice. Needless to say all ends happily.

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