Cristina Comencini Lucy

Rossini’s Eduardo e Cristina was a huge success in its day, but as perhaps the last ‘centone’ opera by a major composer, it became forgotten under the subsequent tide of Romantic idealism. Today we can put these prejudices aside and enjoy this masterful creation for what it is: a hugely entertaining parade of beautiful and spectacular musical ‘hits’ set to a familiar story of secret love, dramatic crisis and triumphant resolution. This 2017 Bad Wildbad revival was summed up as ‘an evening of pure bel canto pleasure!’ by Operagazet.

Rossini’s Eduardo e Cristina was a huge success in its day, but as perhaps the last ‘centone’ opera by a major composer, it became forgotten under the subsequent tide of Romantic idealism. Today we can put these prejudices aside and enjoy this masterful creation for what it is: a hugely entertaining parade of beautiful and spectacular musical ‘hits’ set to a familiar story of secret love, dramatic crisis and triumphant resolution. This 2017 Bad Wildbad revival was summed up as ‘an evening of pure bel canto pleasure!’ by Operagazet.

During his long life, the priest, nobleman, poet, and painter from Rome, Ermenegildo del Cinque (1700–73) wrote over 100 sonatas for two cellos and eighteen pieces for three cellos. Although he was a dilettante di musica, he was the most prolific composer of cello music of all time. Yet despite the fact that he also composed cantatas, a serenata and some sacred music, and was a renowned cellist in Rome, he remains virtually unknown today, even among cellists. This recording, made in the theatre of the Palazzo Altemps in Rome where del Cinque often performed, rescues some of these extraordinarily beautiful compositions from oblivion.

"Con questo disco penso di aver dimostrato qualcosa: le mie non sono solo sigle, sono canzoni". Cristina D'Avena ha presentato con orgoglio il suo nuovo progetto discografico, 'Duets - Tutti cantano Cristina', album di 16 duetti di lusso in uscita venerdì 10 novembre. / "With this album I think I have proven something: my are not only abbreviations, are songs". Cristina D'avena has proudly unveiled his new album project, 'Duets - All singing Cristina', an album of 16 duets of luxury out Friday, November 10.

An absolute re-discovery! Soprano Cristina Barbieri (winner of the Luciano Pavarotti prize in Philadelphia) and pianist Luca Saltini (first prize at the “Czerny” prize in Turin and “Viotti” of Vercelli) are dedicating this CD to the lyrics of the composer Luigi Gazzotti from Modena.

The salon of the 19th century was an important instrument for the dissemination of culture and the transmission of new artistic and literary trends in Europe, and a space clearly dominated by women.

The same organ that accompanied Sir Paul McCartney while he was a choir boy singing the Hymns of the Liturgy and in the Polyphony during the years 1954-56 returns to sound in this recording!

Nonesuch Records releases Brazilian samba singer Teresa Cristina's live album, Canta Cartola, on September 2, 2016. Canta Cartola was recorded at a concert at Theatro Net in Rio de Janeiro and features acoustic performances by Cristina and guitarist Carlinhos Sete Cordas. The album, which comprises songs by Brazil's beloved samba-ist Angenor de Oliveira, known as "Cartola" (Portuguese for top hat), was released digitally earlier this year. In its album review, the New York Times said: "Canta Cartola feels fully embodied, as if Ms. Cristina had written the songs herself.

Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.