Cinzia

While Pergolesi’s vivacious intermezzo of 1733 – a crucial staging post in the development of opera buffa – has a toehold in the repertoire, Paisiello’s 1781 setting of the same silly libretto for Catherine the Great is virtually unknown. The more sophisticated Paisiello can’t match Pergolesi for verve and unassuming lightness of touch. His fast arias tend to be more emphatic, less melodically catchy. But there is plenty to admire in the polished craftsmanship, the colourful writing for woodwind (including prominent clarinets) and, in two of Serpina’s arias, a vein of soulful lyricism characteristic of the Age of Sentiment.

Cinzia Roncelli, Milanese singer known to most 'in 2010 for having recorded the beautiful CD "My Shining Hour", which was attended, among others, the famous saxophonist Francesco Cafiso, and' musician with a very American style, pointing lot interpretation, leaving large spaces to the form of the song and the underlining of words.