It may seem surprising that this is the first complete recording of Gluck's one-act opera (or, as he called it, serenata teatrale ) La corona (The Crown) after more than 240 years. The work was never performed during Gluck's lifetime; written for the name day of Francis I, husband of Habsburg empress Maria Theresa, it was rendered irrelevant by the dedicatee's death in 1765. The listener will discover soon enough why no one has thought to revive the work since then. Gluck's operatic music is prized for its naturalness, but ...
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It may seem surprising that this is the first complete recording of Gluck's one-act opera (or, as he called it, serenata teatrale ) La corona (The Crown) after more than 240 years. The work was never performed during Gluck's lifetime; written for the name day of Francis I, husband of Habsburg empress Maria Theresa, it was rendered irrelevant by the dedicatee's death in 1765. The listener will discover soon enough why no one has thought to revive the work since then. Gluck's operatic music is prized for its naturalness, but this little opera is anything but natural, and its text is neither tragic nor funny. La corona was written for the emperor's four daughters to perform, and the singers, although not the cast of characters, are all female -- three sopranos and one alto (not four sopranos, as is stated on the cover, in one of a group of editorial errors). The plot, loosely modeled on the Greek myth of Atalanta the huntress by librettist Pietro Metastasio on what was decidedly an off day, features...
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