Partenope

Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company - Handel: Partenope (2005)

Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company - Handel: Partenope (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 933 Mb | Total time: 77:57+55:49+56:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Chaconne ‎| CHAN 0719 | Recorded: 2004

Partenope is mature Handel, and belongs in the top flight of his stage works. A comedy from 1730, which was first rejected as too frivolous by the Royal Academy of Music in London, the text had been set 20 years earlier by Caldara for an opera that had been a major influence on the young Handel. The tone is light and the action - all disguises and cross-dressing, with everyone ending up with the right partner - is swift moving; there are relatively few extended arias but a number of ensembles, as well as the obligatory sinfonia and march for the battle scene at the beginning of the second act. This performance under Christian Curnyn hits the right spot from the very start.
Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande - George Frideric Handel: Partenope (2009)

Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande - George Frideric Handel: Partenope (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 860 Mb | Total time: 192:20 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi | # 88697529972 | Recorded: 1979

This is the best recording so far of Partenope. Krisztina Laki is splendid in the lead role as is Helga Muller-Molinari as Rosmira and John York Skinner as Armindo. Rene Jacobs in the counter-tenor role of Arsace does a fine job considering the date of this recording. The orchestra plays with great vitality. This is the recommended recording of this opera.
Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'Oro - George Frideric Handel: Partenope (2015)

Riccardo Minasi, Il Pomo d'Oro - George Frideric Handel: Partenope (2015)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 1,07 Gb | Total time: 74:31+62:48+66:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 0825646090075 | Recorded: 2015

Handel’s sparkling opera Partenope reunites countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and soprano Karina Gauvin, who both made such an impact in the recording of Steffani’s rediscovered Niobe – released by Erato in early 2015 and welcomed by Gramophone as “a landmark event”. Every moment of Partenope’s comedy, romance and drama is captured by the dynamic conductor Riccardo Minasi and his ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro.
Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Il Sogno di Partenope (2014)

Franz Hauk, Simon Mayr Ensemble - Johann Simon Mayr: Il Sogno di Partenope (2014)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 257 Mb | Total time: 65:56 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | # 8.573236 | Recorded: 2012

Franz Hauk and the Simon Mayr Chorus and Ensemble have spearheaded the revival of the music of Johann Simon Mayr who was born in Bavaria but lived in Italy. In the latest instalment of their critically acclaimed recordings they turn to Il sogno di Partenope, an allegorical staged cantata composed to mark the rebuilding of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples following a fire in February 1816. Mayr’s significance as an intermediary between the opera seria of the late eighteenth-century and the melodrama of the early-nineteenth is reflected in this important work, a unique kind of ‘cantata opera’ of which only the second act survives.
Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - George Frideric Handel: Partenope (2001)

Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra - George Frideric Handel: Partenope (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 978 Mb | Total time: 79:14+58:10+55:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Göttinger Händel-Gesellschaft | Recorded: 2001

…Meredith Hall, eine bildhübsche kanadische Sopranistin mit herrlicher Stimme und ausserordentlicher Bühnenpräsenz, war eine Partenope, wie sie im Buche steht. Ihr nahm man jede Äusserung und jede Aktion ab, sei es als furchtlose Regentin, als ständig umworbene, aber stets treu zu ihrem Liebhaber stehende Frau, oder als von Arsace arglistig getäuschte Geliebte.
Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Concerto Copenhagen - George Frideric Handel: Partenope (2009)

Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Concerto Copenhagen, Inger Dam-Jensen, Andreas Scholl - George Frideric Handel: Partenope (2009)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 5 ch) | 187 min | 4.87+6.73 Gb (2xDVD9)
Classical | Label: Decca | Sub: English, Francais, Deutsch, Italiano, Espanol, Dansk | Recorded: 2008

Mortensen's magnificent direction brings out the full measure of excitement, pathos and emotion in Handel's score…[the production] conveys an enormous amount of what makes Partenope very special.
Antonio Florio, I Turchini - Leonardo Vinci: La Partenope (2012)

Antonio Florio, I Turchini - Leonardo Vinci: La Partenope (2012)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 3,57+6,60 Gb (DVD5+DVD9) | 168 min
Classical | Dynamic | Sub.: Italiano, English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol, Korean

La Partenope is a rich and colourful production, superbly performed here by I Turchini Orchestra and conductor Antonio Florio, world-renowned specialists of Baroque repertoire. In this version comic intermezzi have been added, as was customary in the eighteenth century.
Catalina Vicens - Il Cembalo di Partenope: A Renaissance harpsichord tale (2017)

Catalina Vicens - Il Cembalo di Partenope: A Renaissance harpsichord tale (2017)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks)+cue, log, m3u, artwork | 485 MB
Label: Carpe Diem Records – CD-16312 | Tracks: 24 | Time: 66:20 min
Classical

This new album of harpsichordist Catalina Vicens is a unique, multifaceted musical and poetic project. First, it features the world’s oldest playable harpsichord, a priceless treasure that dwells today in the National Music Museum of Vermillion, SD. She plays music from Naples, Italy from around 1525, the year when the instrument that she plays was actually built in Naples. Secondly, Ms Vicens conceived an imaginary tale of the life and story of that very instrument, partly based on historical facts, partly on poetic inspiration emerging from her encounter with this priceless treasure of a historical harpsichord.
Antonio Florio, I Turchini - Leonardo Vinci: La Partenope [La Rosmira fedele] (2012)

Antonio Florio, I Turchini - Leonardo Vinci: La Partenope (La Rosmira fedele) (2012)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 647 Mb | Total time: 52:43+72:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | CDS 686/1-2 | Recorded: 2011

World premiere recording featuring a superb performance presented by Antonio Florio and a cast of true Baroque specialists. This opera waited almost three centuries before its rediscovery by Antonio Florio and the Turchini orchestra. Founded in 1987 by Antonio Florio, the ensemble I Turchini consists of instrumentalists and singers living and working in Naples who specialize in the performance of Neapolitan music from the 17th and 18th centuries and in the rediscovery of music by highly-gifted composers who are now largely unknown.
Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Concerto Copenhagen - Handel: Partenope (2013) [BDRip]

Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Concerto Copenhagen - Handel: Partenope (2013) [BDRip]
BluRay-rip | AVC | MKV 1280x720 / 6215 kbps / 29,970 fps | 186 min | 10,0 Gb
Audio: Italiano / DTS / 5ch / 48.0 KHz / 24 bits
Classical | DECCA | Sub: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Danish

A major contribution to the Handel Year: countertenor star Andreas Scholl returns to the Decca label in a new high definition film of Handels comedy Partenope, presented in Francisco Negrins stylish with a modern-dress staging from the Royal Danish Opera. Scholl gives an outstanding performance, with several contrasting arias that collectively display his unique purity of tone, his virtuosic technique and his sensuous lyricism. Concerto Copenhagen and conductor Lars Ulrik Mortensen are unsung heroes of period-instrument performance, and they make a wonderfully spirited and polished contribution to the production.