Giulio Caccini – L’Euridice (2008)

Prologo
1. Aria di Romanesca
2. La Tragedia : Io che d’alti sospir

Atto primo
Scena prima
3. Pastore del Coro : Ninfe ch’i bei crin d’oro
4. Euridice : Donne ch’a miei diletti
5. Coro : Al canto al ballo

Scena seconda
6. Orfeo : Antri ch’a miei lamenti
7. Dafne Nunzia : Lassa, che di spavento
8. Dafne Nunzia : Per quel vago boschetto
9. Orfeo : Non piango e non sospiro
10. Arcetro : Ahi mort’ invid’e ria
11. Ninfa del coro : Cruda morte

Scena terza
12. Arcetro : Se fato invido e rio
13. Coro : Se de boschi i verdi onori

Atto secondo
Scena quarta
14. Aria di Romanesca
Venere : Scorto da immortal guida
15. Orfeo : Funeste piaggie ombrosi orridi campi
16. Plutone : Ond’e cotanto ardire
17. Plutone : Trionfi oggi pieta ne campi inferni
18. Coro : Poi che gli etern’imperi

Atto terzo
Scena quinta
19. Aria di Romanesca

Arcetro : Gia del bel carro ardente
20. Aminta : Voi che si ratte il volo
21. Orfeo : Gioite al canto mio
22. Coro : Biondo arcier che d’alto monte Aureo fonde

SCHERZI MUSICALI
Orfeo : Nicolas ACHTEN (baryton)
Euridice : Celine VIESLET (soprano)
Tragedia, Daphne : Magid EL-BUSHRA (contre-tenor)
Ninfa, Venere : Marie de ROY (soprano)
Ninfa, Proserpina : Laurence RENSON (mezzo-soprano)
Arcetro, Caronte : Reinoud VAN MECHELEN (tenor)
Tirsi, Aminta, Plutone : Olivier BERTEN (baryton)
Sarah RIDY, harpe triple
Eriko SEMBA, basse de viole, lirone
Simon LINNE, luth, theorbe, guitare
Francesco CORTI, clavecin, orgue

direction Nicolas ACHTEN (theorbe)

This is only the first surviving opera - Jacopo Peri wrote his "Dafne" in 1597, which is lost. Giulio Caccini just pipped Peri to the post of oldest surviving opera by publishing his Euridice six weeks earlier than Peri's version.

It won't surprise you of course to hear that the style is much like Monteverdi; it's all pleasant enough without being an outstanding work. Out of the three, it's maybe not that hard to comprehend why Monteverdi's version of the Orpheus legend, L'Orfeo, plus his other operas, are better remembered today. However it's interesting to get the chance to hear another example of incipient opera. ---E. L. Wisty, amazon.com

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