Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade Josh Lovell, Rocio Pérez, Marie Lys, Maite Beaumont, Mathilde Ortscheidt, Alex Banfield, Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset

• Domenico Cimarosa (1749 - 1801): Sinfonia:
• 1 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade: Sinfonia 04:52
• L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 1:
• 2 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 1: Recitativo. "Ho risoluto, Aminta" 02:26
• 3 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 1: Aria. "Siam navi all’onde algenti" 03:02
• L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 2:
• 4 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 2: Recitativo. "Misero! E fui sì cieco" 01:07
• 5 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 2: Aria. "Superbo di mes stesso" 05:50
• L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 3:
• 6 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 3: Recitativo. "O generoso amico!" 00:39
• 7 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 3: Aria. "O care selve" 02:17
• L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 4 - Scene 5:
• 8 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 4 - Scene 5: Recitativo. "Ecco Aristea" - Recitativo. "Figlia, tutto è compito" 04:31
• L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 5:
• 9 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 5: Aria. "Del destin non vi lagnate" 06:29
• L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 6:
• 10 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 6: Recitativo. "Udisti, o Principessa?" 00:28
• 11 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 6: Aria. "Tu di saper procura" 06:11
• L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 7:
• 12 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 7: Recitativo. "Dunque Licida ingrato" 00:32
• 13 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 7: Aria. "Fra mille amanti un core" 03:25
• L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 8:
• 14 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 8: Recitativo. "Licida. Amico." 03:25
• 15 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 8: Aria. "Mentre dormi" 01:13
• 16 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 8: Accompagnato. "Che intesi eterni Dei!" 02:10
• L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 9:
• 17 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 9: Recitativo. "Stranier? Chi mi sorprende?" - Accompagnato. "E mi lasci così ?" 03:42
• 18 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act I Scene 9: Duetto. "Ne’giorni tuoi felici" 06:24
• L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 1:
• 19 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 1: Recitativo. "E trovar non poss’io" 01:02
• 20 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 1: Aria. "In un cor, que fu piagato" 03:00
• L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 2:
• 21 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 2: Recitativo. "Questi d’un labbro infido" 01:13
• L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 3:
• 22 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 3: Accompagnato. "Io compiango il tuo duol" - Aria. "Grandi, è ver, son le tue pene" 05:48
• L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 4 - Scene 5:
• 23 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 4 - Scene 5: Recitativo. "Giovane valoroso" - Recitativo. "All’odiose nozze" 03:30
• L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 5:
• 24 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 5: Aria. "Bell’alme innamorate" 03:58
• L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 6 - Scene 7:
• 25 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 6 - Scene 7: Recitativo. "Fra l’amico e l’amante" - Recitativo. "Oh, ricordi crudeli!" - Accompagnato. "Senti… Ah, no… Dove vai?" - Accompagnato. "Misero me, che veggo" 09:13
• L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 8:
• 26 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 8: Accompagnato. "Intense tutto, Aristea ?" 00:45
• 27 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 8: Aria. "Se cerca, se dice" 04:18
• L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 9 - Scene 10 - Scene 11 - Scene 12:
• 28 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 9 - Scene 10 - Scene 11 - Scene 12: Recitativo. "Che labirinto è questo" - Recitativo. "A me, barbaro ?" - Recitativo "In angustia più fiera" - Recitativo. "Difendetemi il padre" 04:45
• L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 13:
• 29 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 13: Recitativo. "Eppur, mi fa pietade…" 01:00
• 30 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 13: Aria. "Torbido il ciel s’oscura" 03:31
• L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 14:
• 31 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 14: Recitativo. "Giusti Dei! Che sarà" 01:29
• 32 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 14: Accompagnato. "Qual poter, qual incanto" 01:27
• 33 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 14: Aria. "Mi sento, oh Dio! Nel core" 07:29
• L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 15:
• 34 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 15: Recitativo. "Stelle, vi sono in cielo" 00:45
• 35 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 15: Aria. "Spiegar non posso appieno" 02:40
• L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 16:
• 36 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 16: Accompagnato. "Giovane sventurato!" 04:35
• 37 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 16: Aria. "Non so donde viene" 04:53
• L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 17:
• 38 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 17: Recitativo. "Ah, vieni, illustre esempio" 02:20
• 39 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 17: Accompagnato. "Ah barbari fermate!" 01:57
• 40 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Scene 17: Aria. "Nel lasciarti" 06:23
• L'Olimpiade, Act II Final Scene:
• 41 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Final Scene: Recitativo. "Fermati, o Re" 02:44
• 42 Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade, Act II Final Scene: Finale. "Quanto mai, per sì gran dono" 08:17
• Total Runtime 02:25:45

Info for Cimarosa: L'Olimpiade

Der 1749 geborene Cimarosa war Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts einer der führenden europäischen Komponisten. In seiner produktivsten Zeit entstand seine Olimpiade, eine große Opera seria, die in ein prächtiges Belcanto-Drama verwandelt wurde. Darin bringt Cimarosa den Athleten, die an den Olympischen Spielen teilnehmen und deren Sieger die Prinzessin Aristea heiraten wird, Heldentum bei: Die scheinbar unentwirrbare Handlung erlaubt es dem Komponisten, auf der Grundlage des Librettos von Metastasio einige der außergewöhnlichsten Arien zu schreiben. Christophe Rousset, der Meister des italienischen Repertoires des ausgehenden 18. Jahrhunderts, führt eine schillernde Besetzung in diesem Wirbelsturm des Belcanto!

Josh Lovell, Tenor (Clistene)
Rocio Perez, Sopran (Aristea)
Marie Lys, Sopran (Argene)
Maite Beaumont, Mezzosopran (Megacle)
Mathilde Ortscheidt, Mezzosopran (Licida)
Alex Banfield, Tenor (Aminta)
Les Talens Lyriques
Christophe Rousset, Leitung

Christophe Rousset
During his youth in Aix-en-Provence, Christophe Rousset developed a passion for the Baroque aesthetic. At the age of thirteen he decided not to study archaeology but to satisfy his keen interest in the discovery of the past through music instead, by taking up the harpsichord. That took him to the Schola Cantorum in Paris, where he studied with Huguette Dreyfus, then to the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, to work with Bob van Asperen. At twenty-two he won the prestigious First Prize, as well as the Public Prize, in the Seventh Bruges Harpsichord Competition (1983).

At Aix he also developed his love for opera and the stage by attending rehearsals at the Festival d’Art Lyrique. It was there that opera gave him his first strong emotions, which still guide him in his work today.

Christophe Rousset’s performances as a harpsichordist soon attracted the attention of the international press as well as record companies. He became a member of Les Arts Florissants, then Il Seminario Musicale, before embarking on a career as a music director, which led him to form his own ensemble, Les Talens Lyriques, in 1991. Firing the ensemble with his enthusiasm as a conductor and researcher, he was soon among the front runners of Baroque, acclaimed in France and internationally.

Engagements at the world’s Baroque festivals, numerous recordings (Harmonia Mundi, L’Oiseau-Lyre, Fnac Music, Emi-Virgin, Decca, Naïve and Ambroisie), film soundtracks (Farinelli)… within a few seasons Christophe Rousset had established his reputation as a talented, industrious and conscientious young director with a passion for the voice and for opera, an indefatigable discoverer of original scores (Antigona by Traetta, La Capricciosa Corretta by Martin y Soler, Armida Abbandonata by Jommelli, La Grotta di Trofonio by Salieri, Temistocle, by Jean-Chrétien Bach …), a soloist and chamber musician always at his peak, and a patient and untiring teacher.

His various projects lead him to explore European music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (opera, cantata, oratorio, sonata, symphony, concerto, suite…), constantly shedding light on all the forms that played a part in the history of music before Rossini, and ‘serving’ music in a very personal way.

His many recordings include the complete harpsichord works of François Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, d’Anglebert and Forqueray, and his interpretations of works by J. S. Bach (Partitas, Goldberg Variations, Harpsichord Concertos, English Suites, French Suites, Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann ) are regarded as references. With his ensemble Les Talens Lyriques, his great successes on disc include Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Mozart’s Mitridate, Overtures by Rameau, and Persée and Roland by Lully.

Christophe Rousset is an Officier des Arts et Lettres, and “Chevalier dans l’Ordre National du Mérite”.

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