Matija Meić, Silvia Dalla Benetta, Dario Russo, Danilo Formaggia, César Arrieta, Ana Victória Pitts, Virtuosi Brunensis & Federico Longo - Lindpaintner: Die sicilianische Vesper, Op. 332 (Sung in Italian as Il vespro siciliano) [Live] (2018)
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Classical, Opera | Label: Naxos Records
Robert Schumann considered Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner the most promising operatic composer in the country, yet despite his 21 operas he has been almost forgotten. Like most leading German composers of his time he took Meyerbeer's historical grand operas, conceived in Paris, as his model. Set in Sicily at the dawn of the 1848 revolution, Il vespro siciliano ('Die sizilianische Vesper' / 'The Sicilian Vespers') is a dramatic four-act opera that reveals why he was held in such esteem by Schumann, Spohr and Mendelssohn: expressive harmonies, folksong-like strophic songs, rich orchestration, the use of the latest stylistic devices, and tuneful bel canto melodies that point to the work's Franco-Italian lineage.